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

'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

• 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