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Labour Institutions and Development Programme
DP/66/1994
ISBN 92-9014-550-1
First published 1994
Growing points in poverty research:
Labour issues
by
Michael Lipton
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University
Great Britain |
| Growing points in poverty research: Labour issues |
 Chapter 1: Meaning and measurement: Effects of a focus on labour
 1.1 Receipts: low, or inadequate for conversion into well-being?
1.2 Inadequate receipts: quality of life, income, consumption, food?
1.3 Private, public and total receipts
1.4 Receivers: person, adult-equivalent, household?
1.5 Adequacy per receiver: absolute or relative?
1.6 Transient, chronic, or instantaneous?
1.7 Poverty: primary, secondary or observed?
1.8 Inadequacy for what? Poverty and ultra-poverty lines
1.9 Do lines mark thresholds?
1.10 Adding up below the line: FGT and all that
Chapter 2: Correlates, causes, consequences
2.1 Bivariate characteristics and multivariate models of poverty
2.2 Demographic characteristics
2.3 Labour and poverty
2.4 Food, nutrition and poverty
2.5 Land ownership and poverty
2.6 Other tangible assets
2.7 Education and skills
2.8 Health
2.9 Variation in space: urban-rural and other issues
2.10 Fluctuations, variations and compensations
Bibliographical references
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