Understanding Poverty and Well-Being

Written by a multi-disciplinary team of contributors, the essays in this collection explore the different dimensions of well-being, poverty and inequality.

Hulme, David; Toye, John

1. The Case for Cross-disciplinary Social Science Research on Poverty, Inequality and Well-being  2. Representing Poverty and Attacking Representations: Perspectives on Poverty from Social Anthropology  3. Pluralism, Poverty and Sharecropping: Cultivating Open-mindedness in Development Studies  4. Capabilities, Reproductive Health and Well-being  5. Development and Social Capital  6. Subjective Well-being Poverty vs. Income Poverty and Capabilities Poverty?  7. Poverty, Persistence and Transitions in Uganda: A Combined Qualitative and Quantitive Analysis  8. Consumption and Welfare in Ghana in the 1990s