The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty builds a common scholarly ground in the study of poverty by bringing together an international, inter-disci

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This impressive collection brings together the most important contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field of poverty measurement. It includes cri

Are the poor, as one writer suggests, only those without enough to eat? Or does poverty instead consist of "the inability to buy a beer when everyone else has o

The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality—a critically important examination of poverty around the world In this, his fina