Understanding Poverty and Well-Being: Bridging the Disciplines

Written by a multi-disciplinary team of contributors, the essays in this collection explore the different dimensions of well being, poverty and inequality.

1. The Case for Cross-Disciplinary Social Science Research on Poverty, Inequality and Well-Being 2. Representing Poverty and Attacking Representations: Perspectives on Poverty from Social Anthropology 3. Pluralism, Poverty and Sharecropping: Cultivating Open-Mindedness in Development Studies 4. Capabilities, Reproductive Health and Well-Being 5. Development and Social Capital 6. Subjective Well-Being Poverty vs. Income Poverty and Capabilities Poverty? 7. Poverty, Persistence and Transitions in Uganda: A Combined Qualitative and Quantitive Analysis 8. Consumption and Welfare in Ghana in the 1990s