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Book SynopsisThis book offers a holistic view of Julio Boltvinik’s vast and important work on poverty conceptualisation and measurement. It provides the foundations, application and empirical examples of Boltvinik’s Integrated Poverty Measurement Method, which could potentially transform poverty narratives globally as it has done in Mexico.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Conceptualising poverty 1. Households’ reproduction logic, their well-being sources and concepts of needs and poverty 2. Critique of the Political Economy of Poverty (CPEP), Part 1: on different answers to the question of the constitutive elements of the good/full life 3. Critique of the Political Economy of Poverty, Part 2: conceptual maps and definitions 4. Principles and good practices of poverty conceptualisation Part 2: Measuring poverty 5. Principles and good practices of poverty measurement 6. A typology of poverty measurement methods: a critique of direct and indirect poverty measurement methods 7. Combined methods of poverty measurement 8. The Integrated Poverty Measurement Method (IPMM) 9. Aggregate poverty measures (APM) Epilogue
