FRANCES STEWART is Professor of Development Economics and Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, Oxford University, UK. A pre-eminent development economist, she was named one of fifty outstanding technological leaders for 2003 by Scientific American. RUHI SAITH qualified as a medical doctor and has a D.Phil in medicine from Oxford University, UK. Her research interests and experience are in the multi-dimensional aspects of poverty and anti-poverty policy. She has worked on research projects with the UN, UNDP, UNRISD, the World Bank and Qu

• Acknowledgements Introduction; F.Stewart, C.R.Laderchi & R.Saith The Monetary Approach to Poverty: A Survey of Concepts and Methods; C.R.Laderchi Capabilities: The Concept and Its Implementation; R.Saith Social Exclusion: The Concept and Application to Developing Countries; R.Saith Participatory Methods in the Analysis of Poverty: A Critical Review; C.R.Laderchi Poverty in India: A Comparison of Different Approaches; R.Saith with A.Sharma Different Concepts of Poverty; S.Franco Destitution in India and Peru; B.Harriss-White Alternative Realities? Different Concepts of Poverty, their Empirical Consequences and Policy Implications: Overview and Conclusions; F.Stewart, R.Saith & B.Harriss-White Bibliography Index

'The core strength of the volume is the care with which both theoretical and empirical issues are explored...it will have lasting value as a classic in an assessment of the alternative concepts, definitions and measures of poverty.' - Journal of Human Development and Capabilities