From Poverty to Well-Being and Human Flourishing (Volume 1)
Integrated Conceptualisation and Measurement of Economic Poverty
By Julio Boltvinik
Published
Jun 10, 2025Page count
260 pagesISBN
978-1447368472Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Jan 9, 2024Page count
260 pagesISBN
978-1447368465Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Jan 9, 2024Page count
260 pagesISBN
978-1447368489Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Jan 9, 2024Page count
260 pagesISBN
978-1447368489Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy Press
From Poverty to Well-Being and Human Flourishing (Volume 1)
This book offers a holistic view of Julio Boltvinik’s vast and important work on poverty conceptualisation and measurement. While well known to Spanish-speaking audiences, this volume brings these works together to offer access for English-speaking audiences for the first time.
The book provides the foundations, application and empirical examples of Boltvinik’s Integrated Poverty Measurement Method, which could potentially transform poverty narratives globally as it has done in Mexico.
Deeply critical of available poverty approaches, it provides a challenging and radically new way of conceiving and measuring poverty, offering the only multidimensional poverty measurement method which includes time poverty and allows all Aggregate Poverty Measures to be fully calculated.
“With the number of food insecure people up eight years running, from 21% to nearly 30% in 2022, and the Sustainable Development Goals far off track, Boltvinik gives the persistent global poverty problem a welcome fresh analysis from the Global South.” Thomas Pogge, Yale University
Julio Boltvinik is Professor for El Colegio de México’s Ph.D. Programme. While being a member of the Chamber of Deputies (2003-2006) he promoted a Law that enforces multidimensional poverty measurement in Mexico. He has published widely.
Introduction
Part 1: Conceptualising poverty
1. Households’ reproduction logic, their well-being sources and concepts of needs and poverty
2. Critique of the Political Economy of Poverty (CPEP), Part 1: on different answers to the question of the constitutive elements of the good/full life
3. Critique of the Political Economy of Poverty, Part 2: conceptual maps and definitions
4. Principles and good practices of poverty conceptualisation
Part 2: Measuring poverty
5. Principles and good practices of poverty measurement
6. A typology of poverty measurement methods: a critique of direct and indirect poverty measurement methods
7. Combined methods of poverty measurement
8. The Integrated Poverty Measurement Method (IPMM)
9. Aggregate poverty measures (APM)
Epilogue