TY - BOOK AU - Ravallion, Martin TI - The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement and Policy SN - 9780199474950 U1 - 339.46 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Equality - Social Policy | Poverty N1 - Part I. History of Thought. 1. Origins of the idea of a world free of poverty; 2. New thinking on poverty after 1950 Part II. Measures and Methods. 3. Measuring welfare 4. Poverty lines 5. Poverty and inequality measures 6. Impact evaluation Part III. Poverty and Policy. 7. Dimensions of poverty and inequality 8. Growth, inequality and poverty 9. Economy-wide and sectoral policies 10. Targeted interventions 11. Conclusions: Past progress and future challenges ER -