Poverty Dynamics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

This collection of essays provides a state-of-the-art examination of the concepts and methods that can be used to understand poverty dynamics. It does this from an interdisciplinary perspective and includes the work of anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and political scientists. The contributions included highlight the need to conceptualise poverty from a multidimensional perspective and promote Q-Squared research approaches, or those that combine quantitative and qualitative research. The first part of the book provides a review of the research on poverty dynamics in developing countries. Part two focuses on poverty measurement and assessment, and discusses the most recent work of world-leading poverty analysts. The third part focuses on frameworks for understanding poverty analysis that avoid measurement and instead utilise approaches based on social relations and structural analysis. There is widespread consensus that poverty analysis should focus on poverty dynamics and this book shows how this idea can practically be taken forward. Contributors to this volume - Tony Addison, Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester Jo Boyden, University of Oxford Cesar Calvo, University of Oxford Michael R. Carter, University of Wisconsin-Madison Elizabeth Cooper, University of Oxford Peter Davis, University of Bath Stefan Dercon, University of Oxford Andrew Felton, University of Maryland James E. Foster, Vanderbilt University Maia Green, University of Manchester Isabel Gunther, Harvard University John Harriss, Simon Fraser University David Hulme, University of Manchester Munenobu Ikegami, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University Stephan Klasen, University of Gottingen Anirudh Krishna, Duke University Caroline Moser, University of Manchester S. R. Osmani, University of Ulster Agnes Quisumbing, International Food Policy Research Institute Andries du Toit, University of the Western Cape Michael Woolcock, Brooks World Poverty Institute