This anthology constitutes an important contribution to the interdisciplinary debate on poverty measurement and alleviation. Absolute and relative poverty-both within and across state boundaries-are standardly measured and evaluated in monetary terms. However, poverty researchers have highlighted the shortfalls of one-dimensional monetary metrics. A new consensus is emerging that effectively addressing poverty requires a nuanced understanding of poverty as a relational phenomenon involving deprivations in multiple dimensions, including health, standard of living, education and political participation.

Foreword.- Introduction: Interdisciplinary perspectives on poverty measurement, epistemic injustices and social activism.- Part I: The Philosophy and Idea of Poverty.- Chapter 1. Beyond Poverty (Jonathan Wolff).- Chapter 2. Poverty as a Social Relation (Daniel Putnam).- Chapter 3. Metrics, Politics and Definitions. How Poverty Lost its Social Context and What This Means for Current Debates (Philipp Lepenies).- Chapter 4. Scientific Ghettos and Beyond. Epistemic Injustice in Academia and its Effects on Researching Poverty (Franziska Dübgen).- Chapter 5. Hairiness and Hairlessness: An African Feminist View of Poverty (Sharon Adetutu Omotoso).- Chapter 6. Is the Debate on Poverty Research a Global One? A Consideration of Odera Oruka's 'Human Minimum' as a case of Epistemic Injustice (Jonathan Chimakonam).- Chapter 7. Poverty, Richness, and Aid: A conceptual Proposal (Bettina Mahlert).- Chapter 8. Absolute Poverty in European Welfare States (Gottfried Schweiger and Helmut Gaisbauer).- Chapter 9. Giving Well: Philanthropy for Human Rights (Patricia Illingworth).- Part II: On The Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty.- Chapter 10. Multidimensional Poverty Measures as Policy Tools (Sabina Alkire).- Chapter 11. Poverty: Beyond Obscurantism (Sanjay Reddy).- Chapter 12. An absolute multidimensional poverty measure in the functioning space (and relative measure in the resource space): An Illustration using Indian data (Caroline Dotter and Stephan Klasen).- Chapter 13. Poverty in All its Forms: Determining the dimensions of poverty through merging knowledge (Xavier Godinot and Robert Walker).- Chapter 14. The measurement of multidimensional poverty across countries: A proposal for selecting dimensions (Francesco Burchi, Nicole Rippin, Claudio E. Montenegro).- Chapter 15. Mapping Out Multiple Dimensions of Well-Being by Ethnicity in Rural Cameroon (Hans Tino Ayamena Mpenya).- Chapter 16. Eda Keskin Rising Tide of Precariat and Denizens in Neoliberal Capitalism: The Case of Germany.- Chapter 17. Measuring Capabilities: Using Financial Diaries in Bangladesh (Julio Linares and Yu-hsuan Su).- Chapter 18. Approaches to poverty in the light of their usefulness for research into institutionalized childcare (Sylvia Meichsner).- Epilogue.- Mitu Sengupta: Poverty Research and Western Activism.- Literature.- Index.