Q-Squared - Qualitative and Quantitative Poverty Appraisal: Complementarities, Tensions and the Way Forward*

May, 2001
Ravi Kanbur (Editor)
Cornell University

Email: sk145@cornell.edu

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Abstract
This compilation brings together the proceedings of a workshop on “Qualitative and Quantitative Poverty Appraisal: Complementarities, Tensions and the Way Forward.” Contributors were asked to submit short summaries of their positions, with detailed references to the literature as necessary. The compilation represents a remarkable statement of the state of the art and the debate on “Qual-Quant”, at a time when the complementarities between the qualitative and the quantitative traditions in poverty analysis are being recognized, but the tensions are ever present, and analysts and policy makers are looking for a way forward in using the two approaches to design effective poverty reduction strategies.

Contributors to this volume include:

Ravi Kanbur
Robert Chambers
Patti Petesch
Norman Uphoff
Martin Ravallion
Francois Bourguignon
David Sahn
Caroline Moser
Christopher Barrett
David Booth
Vijayendra Rao
Luc Christiaensen
Jesko Hentschel
Paul Shaffer
Rosemary McGee
Ronald Herring
Gary Fields
Alex Wilks
Erik Thorbecke

* This volume originally appeared as: Cornell University Applied Economics and Management Working Paper 2001-05, May, 2001.

 

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