Q-Squared: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods of Poverty Appraisal

It is increasingly recognized that policy design for attacking poverty requires an approach that makes best use of the relative strengths of qualitative and quantitative analytical tools, applied to the situation at hand. This volume brings together the world leaders in analysis from both sides of the divide to push the dialogue forward. In brief and pointed expositions they characterise the main strengths and weaknesses of each approach, discuss these with concrete examples, and propose a way ahead for combining the two approaches fruitfully.