New Zealand Living standards survey 2008. In this report, Bryan Perry of the Ministry of Social Development in Wellington develops his earlier work on an Economic Living Standards Index (ELSI). This index is used to compare the material wellbeing of individuals and population subgroups but, in contrast to both the Townsend and the Mack and Lansley research, the ELSI measures the full range of living standards rather than being just hardship-focused.

Consensual poverty in Britain, Sweden and Bangladesh: a comparative study. This paper by A.I. Mahbub Uddin Ahmed, Professor of Sociology at the University of Dhaka, is based on a large-scale survey carried out in Bangladesh in 2000. It compares the findings with earlier work on poverty using the consensual method in Britain and Sweden.

Social exclusion and earlier disadvantages: an empirical study of poverty and social exclusion in Japan. In this paper Abe Aya provides one of the first attempts in Japan to define and measure poverty and social exclusion in that country.

Combating poverty and inequality is a major report from the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development on progress towards poverty reduction targets internationally.