Papers in this issue include: Articles on broad areas of understanding poverty, poverty, policy and aid, and poverty reduction. Papers in this issue include: Agency, well-being and inequality: Reflections on the gender dimensions of poverty. Beneath the poverty debate: Some issues. Neglected trade-offs In poverty measurement. Problems of measuring changes in poverty over time: The case of Uganda 1989-92 Public expenditure policy and poverty reduction: Has the World Bank got it right? Targeting the poor in rural Java. How much aid is used for poverty reduction? Aid and poverty alleviation: An international comparison. Apples, pears and poverty reduction: An assessment of British bilateral aid.