S. Wisor

Measuring Global Poverty

Toward a Pro-Poor Approach

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The author examines the moral, methodological, and practical problems that arise from poverty measurement. He establishes a methodological framework for analyzing poverty conceptions and measures, and concludes with concrete recommendations regarding both the procedures for and substance of future global poverty measurement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-30286-0
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 241
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780230302860
• ISBN-10: 0230302866
• Artikelnr.: 34158100

Autorenporträt

SCOTT WISOR is Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations PART I: AN ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK Introducing Poverty Measurement A Defense of Global Poverty Measurement A Pro-Poor Methodology PART II: COMPETING CONCEPTIONS AND MEASURES OF POVERTY Monetary Approaches Basic Needs Capabilities Social Exclusion Rights PART III: THE WAY FORWARD New Values, New Desiderata Public Reason and Poverty Measurement Toward Pro-Poor Global Poverty Measurement Notes References Index