From Poverty to Well-Being and Human Flourishing (Volume 1)

Julio Boltvinik is Professor for El Colegio de México’s Ph.D. Programme. While being a member of the Chamber of Deputies (2003-2006) he promoted a Law that enforces multidimensional poverty measurement in Mexico. He has published widely.

• IntroductionPart 1: Conceptualising poverty1. Households’ reproduction logic, their well-being sources and concepts of needs and poverty2. Critique of the Political Economy of Poverty (CPEP), Part 1: on different answers to the question of the constitutive elements of the good/full life3. Critique of the Political Economy of Poverty, Part 2: conceptual maps and definitions4. Principles and good practices of poverty conceptualisationPart 2: Measuring poverty5. Principles and good practices of poverty measurement6. A typology of poverty measurement methods: a critique of direct and indirect poverty measurement methods7. Combined methods of poverty measurement8. The Integrated Poverty Measurement Method (IPMM)9. Aggregate poverty measures (APM)Epilogue