BRINGING POLITICS BACK INTO POVERTY ANALYSIS: WHY UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL RELATIONS MATTERS MORE FOR POLICY ON CHRONIC POVERTY THAN MEASUREMENT, CPRC WORKING PAPER NO. 77 CONTENTS * Abstract *

Citation * Links ABSTRACT Mainstream poverty research - even after experts had generally accepted the need for a multidimensional view of poverty that goes beyond income/consumption measures

to take account of holdings of assets and hence of longer run security - has generally failed to address the dynamic, structural and relational factors that give rise to poverty. CITATION

Bringing politics back into poverty analysis: Why understanding social relations matters more for policy on chronic poverty than measurement, CPRC Working Paper No. 77, Chronic Poverty