Papers - Using an asset index to assess trends in poverty in seven Sub-Saharan African countries Frikkie Booysen - University of the Free State – South Africa - Reckoning Inter-group Poverty Differentials in the Measurement of Aggregate Poverty S.Subramanian - World Institute for Development Economics Research - Finland, and Madras Institute of Development Studies – India - Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons Jean-Yves Duclos - Departement d’ Economique and CIRPEE, Universitè Laval - Canada, and Institut d’Análisi Económica (CSIC), Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona - Spain - Household Arrangements and Economic Poverty: A Subjective Well-Being Approach Mariano Rojas - Department of Economics , Universidad de las Americas - Mexico - Multidimensional Poverty: A Comparison between Egypt and Tunisia Sami Bibi - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Economiques et l’emploi (CIRPEE) and Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Tunis (FSEGT) – Tunisia - Checking the Consistency of Poverty in Poland: 1997 -2003 Evidence Adam Szulc - Warsaw School of Economics/ Institute of Statistics and Demography – Poland - Towards An Unified Framework for Understanding the Depth, Breadth and Duration of Poverty David Clark and David Hulme - Global Poverty Research Group/Universities of Manchester and Oxford – United Kingdom - Are There Social Classes? An Empirical Test of the Sociologist's Favorite Concept David B. Grusky - Stanford University, and Kim Weeden - Cornell University – United States of America - The Subjective Dimension of Poverty: a Psychological Perspective Joaquina Palomar Lever - Iberoamerican University- Mexico - Poverty counts: living with poverty and poverty measures Sara Berry - Johns Hopkins University – United States of America - Recognized and Violated by International Law: The Human Rights of the Global Poor Thomas W. Pogge - Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics/ Australian National University – Australia - Statistical Test for Multidimensional Poverty Analysis Gordon Anderson – University of Toronto – Canada - Multidimensional Poverty in a Risky Environment Peru, 1998-2002 Cesar Calvo - Department of Economics/University of Oxford – United Kingdom - On The Watts Multidimensional Poverty Index Satya R. Chakravarty - Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute - India - The Multidimensionality of Poverty: An Institutionalist Perspective Allice Sindzingre - National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, Paris), University Paris X - France, and of School Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)/University of London – United Kingdom - Measuring Individual Vulnerability Stefan Dercon - University of Oxford – United Kingdom - Pauvrete Multidimensionnelle au Senegal: une Approache Non Monetaire par les Besoins de Base Jean Bosco Ki – UNESCO/BREDA - Senegal - Diversité Ethno-Culturelle et Differentiel de Pauvrete Multidimensionnelle au Cameroun Paul Ningaye - Université de Dschang - Cameroun - Deprivation in the São Paulo Districts: Evidence from 2000 Conchita D’Ambrosio, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy and DIW Berlin, Germany; Rute Imanishi Rodrigues, Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), Brazil - The Order of Acquisition of Durable Goods and The Multidimensional Measurement of Poverty Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber – Bar Ilan University – Israel - Multidimensional Poverty in the Philippines: Trend, Patterns, and Determinants Geoffrey M. Ducanes, University of the Philippines-Diliman; Arsenio M. Balisacan, University of the Philippines - A Rights-Based Approach to Poverty: the South African Experience Linda Jansen van Rensburg, North-West University, South Africa - Multidimensional Poverty Measurement with Multiple Correspondence Analysis Louis-Marie Asselin – Université Laval and Institut de Mathématique Gauss - Canada - The Fuzzy Approach to Multidimensional Poverty: the Case of Italy in the 90's Gianni Betti; Bruno Cheli; Achille Lemmi; Vijay Verma – University of Siena, Italy - Gender and Say: A Model of Household Behavior with Implications for Intra-Household Inequality and Poverty Kaushik Basu, Cornell University, USA - Going beyond functionings to capabilities: an econometric model to explain and estimate capabilities Jaya Krishnakumar, University of Geneva, Switzerland - Methods of Factor Analysis for Ordinal Categorical Data and Application to Poverty Data Gisele Kamanou, , United Nations Statistics Division, United States of America - Empowerment: if it matters, how do we measure it? Ruth Alsop, World Bank – Poverty Reduction Group, United States of America - Participation, Pluralism and Perceptions of Poverty Robert Chambers, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, the United Kingdom - Identifying and Measuring Chronic Poverty: Beyond Monetary Measures David Hulme, University of Manchester; Andy McKay,University of Bath, UK - Multi-dimensional Poverty: Conceptual and Measurement Issues Erik Thorbecke, Cornell University, USA - Intercountry Comparisons of Poverty Based on a Capability Approach: A Pilot Study Muhammad Asali, Sanjay Reddy, and Sujata Visaria – Columbia University, USA - Think Global, Act Local: Social Credit Based on the MDGs Marcelo Cortez Neri, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and Brazilian Institute of Economics Marcelo Casal Xerez, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and Brazilian Ministry of Finance Brazil - Using Efficiency Analysis to Measure Individual Well-being with an Illustration for Catalonia Xavier Ramos, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and IZA , Spain and Germany - Dynamique de la Pauvreté multidimensionnelle au Burkina Faso entre 1998 et 2003: Évidences empiriques à partir d’indicateurs de base monétaires et non monétaires Samuel T. KABORE, Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso - Poverty and Human Rights Peter Townsend, London School of Economics, the United Kingdom - Multidimensional Measures of Child Povert David Gordon, Michelle Irving, Shailen Nandy - School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol; Peter Townsend - Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics, UK - Multidimensional Poverty and Cluster Analysis: An Illustration with Switzerland Giovanni Ferro Luzzi, Yves Flückiger and Sylvain Weber – University of Geneva, Switzerland   International Poverty Centre