Poverty, wellbeing, inequality and relative deprivation, social/distributive justice, social choice, Sen’s capability approach, cross-country studies, measurement and data collection methodologies; Latin America and the Caribbean, Mozambique.

Publications 

Publications in peer reviewed journals

Literacy Inequalities, Mediation and the Public Good:  A Case Study of Physical Proximity and Social Distance in Nepal, British Journal of Sociology of Education, forthcoming (with B. Maddox)
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Reign in Hell or Serve in Heav’n? A Cross-country Journey into the Absolutist vs Relativist Perception of Wellbeing, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 81, 715-730, 2012 (with L. Corazzini and F. Majorano)
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Poverty Measurement: Prioritarianism, Sufficiency and the ‘I’s of Poverty, Economics and Philosophy, 27, 109-121, 2011 (with P. J. Lambert)
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Literacy practices and schooling: A Case study from Mozambique, World Development, 39, 1796-1807 (with B. Kebede and B. Maddox)

Exploring the Absolutist Vs Relativist Perception of Poverty Using a Cross-Country Questionnaire Survey, Journal of Economic Psychology, 32, 273-283, 2011 (with L. Corazzini and F. Majorano)
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New perspectives on a more-or-less familiar poverty index, with extensions, Social Choice and Welfare, 36, 241-247, 2011 (with K. Bosmans and P. J. Lambert)
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What Principles should inform Poverty Indices? Insights from a Cross-Country Survey. Empirical Economics, 387-420, 2011 (with F. Majorano)
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Sufficiency Re-examined: A Capabilities Perspective on the Assessment of Functional Adult Literacy. Journal of Development Studies , 47, 1315-1331, 2011  (with B. Maddox)
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Upper boundedness for the Measurement of Relative Deprivation, Review of Income and Wealth, 56 (3), 632-639, 2010
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Multidimensional Poverty Measurement: Restricted and Unrestricted Hierarchy among Poverty Dimensions. Journal of Applied Economics 13, 181-204, 2010 (with E. Chiappero-Martinetti)

A Note to the Bourguignon-Fields Class of Poverty Indices. Journal of Public Economics 93, 852-854, 2009 (with P.J. Lambert)
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Other/Submitted/In progress

Esposito, L., On the joint Evaluation of Absolute Poverty and Relative Deprivation, submitted (with E. Anderson).

The Vaule of Literacy Practices, submitted (with B. Kebede and B. Maddox)

Why does Finland have Unit Fines? in progress (with K. Bosmans and E. Schokkaert)

Testing Intertemporal Poverty Axioms with Two Samples, in progress

Moving the Goalposts is a Fair Game: On the Absoluteness of Absolute Poverty, in progress

On the asymmetries between the concepts of Poverty and Wellbeing, in progress

Gender Roles and Education in Preferences for Local Dances, in progress

Translations of Transnational Corporations and International Production. Concepts, Theories, Effects, by Prof. G. Ietto-Gillies, Edward Elgar Publisher, 2005

Undergraduate

Economics of Development 1 (EC1)
Introduction to Development Studies (IDS)
Latin American Development (LAD) 

Postgraduate

Microeconomics of Development (MID)
Welfare Evaluation for Development (WED)
Research Technique and Analysis (RTA)
Development Perspectives (DP)

PhD supervision

I am currently supervising three PhD students writing their theses on topics such as inequality, poverty, redistributive impact of fiscal policies, education, subjective wellbeing and youth aspirations 

Director of the BA in International Development with Economics (with and without Overseas Experience)