The first part of this book from the Chronic Poverty Research Centre provides a review of the research on poverty dynamics in developing countries. Part two focuses on poverty measurement and assessment, and discusses the most recent work of world-leading poverty analysts. The third part focuses on frameworks for understanding poverty analysis that avoid measurement and instead utilise approaches based on social relations and structural analysis. There is widespread consensus that poverty analysis should focus on poverty dynamics and this book shows how this idea can practically be taken forward.

In their chapter César Calvo and Stefan Dercon argue that existing approaches to poverty measurement and assessment have not been explicit enough about their underlying assumptions. They explore how far it is possible to create a set of defining characteristics of poverty, particularly regarding the temporal challenges of measuring poverty, when taking into account how people?s lives change over time.

Tony Addison, David Hulme and Ravi Kanbur (eds.) (2000) Poverty Dynamics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives,Oxford: Oxford University Press.