1. Introduction: Poverty, ideology and development
Deconstructing the politics of poverty measures
Understanding poverty as ideology
The fundamental relativity of modern poverty
Three dominant approaches and a framework
Appendix: Note on the use of the terms ‘neoliberal’ and ‘globalisation’ in this book
2. Unpeeling the politics of poverty measures
The politics of representation
The politics of prioritisation
The politics of conception and production
The plentiful pathways of poverty analysis
Conclusion: The moral politics of poverty studies
3. Money-metric measures of poverty
Clarifications on the metric of money and unidimensionality
The arbitrariness of money-metric poverty measurement
Secular underestimations of absolute poverty
4. Multidimensional measures of poverty
Direct approaches to poverty measurement
Composite indicators and quandaries of aggregation
Subtle ideological shifts in Senology
5. The social exclusion approach
A synthesis of the social exclusion approach
The ambiguities of social exclusion
Differentiating social exclusion from poverty
The benefits of differentiation
Production, distribution and redistribution: The classical triad
Supply, demand and terms of trade and wages
The fallacy of productivity reductionism and development
Social policy and social ordering in development
8. Conclusion: Poverty as ideology in an age of neoliberalism
Deconstructing for social justice
The poverty of poverty studies
The political consequences of shifting modalities of targeting
Re-politicising social justice within global development agendas