Chapter 26 Review Questions

Measuring and Evaluating Poverty
  1. What is Amartya Sen’s account of poverty?
  2. Discuss monetary poverty and how it relates to development.
  3. What is the “Big Mac Index”? Explain it briefly but clearly.
  4. Discuss Amartya Sen’s capability approach.
  5. Describe the conceptual and normative dissonance between monetary and multi-dimensional poverty approaches.
  6. How did Charles Booth’s work pioneer the study of poverty?
  7. Explain the difference between absolute poverty and relative poverty.
  8. In what way did the concept of multi-dimensional poverty change the traditional study of poverty?
  9. What is the study of the measurement of poverty characterized by?
  10. Describe the rise in participatory approaches to poverty measurement.
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