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