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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction to the Series -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Concepts and Methods of Poverty Analysis -- 2.1 Conceptual Approaches to Measuring 'Well-Being' -- 2.2 Using Household Surveys for Welfare Measurement -- Survey Design -- Goods Coverage and Valuation -- Variability and the Time Period of Measurement -- Comparisons across Households at Similar Consumption Levels -- 2.3 Some Alternative Measures -- Real Consumption per Equivalent Adult -- Nutritional Indicators -- Anthropological Methods -- Summary -- 2.4 Poverty Lines -- 'Absolute' versus 'Relative' Poverty -- Basic Needs Poverty Lines -- Relative Poverty Lines -- Subjective Poverty Lines -- Dual Poverty Lines -- Summary -- 2.5 Adding Up Poverty -- Poverty Measures -- Measurement Errors -- Estimation -- Hypothesis Testing -- Summary -- 2.6 Decompositions -- Poverty Profiles -- Decomposing a Change in Poverty: Growth and Redistribution Components -- The Sectoral Decomposition of a Change in Poverty -- 2.7 The Robustness of Ordinal Poverty Comparisons -- A Single Measure of Standard of Living -- More than One Dimension -- Summary -- 3. Putting Theory into Practice -- 3.1 How Well Can the Prevalence of Poverty in a Country be Predicted Without a Household Survey? -- 3.2 How Well do Cross-Sectional Indicators Identify the Long-Term Poor? -- 3.3 Which Sector or Region has More Poverty? -- Urban-Rural Poverty Lines in Indonesia -- Examples of More Detailed Sectoral and Regional Poverty Profiles -- 3.4 How Reliable are Assessments of Progress in Poverty Reduction? -- Bangladesh in the 1980s -- Indonesia in the 1980s -- 3.5 What is the Relative Importance of Growth versus Redistribution? -- 3.6 How Important are Different Sectors to Changes in Poverty? -- 3.7 How do Price Changes Affect the Poor? -- Rice Prices and Poverty in Indonesia

"First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company."--Provided by publisher.

The last 30 years has seen much progress against extreme poverty in the world - a faster pace of progress than was seen over the prior 100 years or more of economic development globally. However, continuing progress is far from assured. High and rising inequality has stalled progress against poverty in many countries. We are seeing generally rising relative poverty-judged by the standards of the country and time one live in- over recent decades. There has been less progress in reaching the world's poorest, who risk being left behind. And a great many people in the emerging middle class remain vulnerable to falling back into poverty. This book aims to support well-informed efforts to put in place effective policies to assure continuing success in the fight against poverty in all its dimensions.