Books
IPC-IG collection of One Pagers
IPC-IG launches the first collection of ninety-nine One Pagers, a book aimed at stimulating public policy debates on key inclusive development issues. Covering interrelated areas, such as equitable access to water, electricity, and sanitation, cash transfer programmes, gender equality, employment generation policies, HIV/AIDS financing, and inclusive macro and financial policies, the present collection is a useful tool for policymakers, development specialist and advisors, researchers, the civil society and the UN family. The policy recommendations proposed by these One Pagers are based in sound empirical analysis, data collection and policy evaluation, monitoring and field experiences undertaken by renowned experts both from IPC-IG and a wide array of partner UN agencies, research institutions and the development community in the South. A number of country programmes are discussed under the spirit of South-South learning and help promote the exchange of innovative approaches to inclusive growth in the South, covering countries such as Brazil, South Africa, Ethiopia, India, China, Mozambique, Vietnam, Paraguay, Mexico, Timor-Leste, Indonesia, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Chile and Uganda. This book collection with be soon published in Spanish, Portuguese and French.
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Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
This book explores the latest developments in the field of multidimensional poverty measurement. It includes clear presentations of more than a dozen different quantitative techniques based respectively on information and fuzzy sets theory, the Rasch model, Factor, Cluster and Multiple Correspondence and Analysis, MIMIC and structural equations models, efficiency analysis, axiomatic, subjective and ordinal approaches to the topic. The book provides empirical illustrations based on data sources from developed or developing countries. This book aims at contributing to the debate concerning multidimensional poverty measurement. Progress in this domain will not be possible if the various approaches available are not known to those working in the field. Unfortunately several of them seem to have been completely ignored by many specialists. This book represents, therefore, a unique opportunity to become familiar with the present state of the knowledge.
Many Dimensions of Poverty
This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to poverty, including five different perspectives from the disciplines of economics, sociology, anthropology, psychology and institutional economics. The book also explores the link between poverty and the concept of freedom, as articulated by Amartya Sen, in terms of capabilities that are valuable to people. There are also studies of chronicity of poverty, the concept of vulnerability, the political economy of poverty alleviation and the pro-poorness of government programs. The book presents a panorama, as large as possible, of the many facets of poverty. The broad view of poverty that the book offers is likely to orient research on poverty in directions neglected hitherto and to help those in charge of implementing poverty reduction policies.
