- Knowledge of Amartya Sen¿s capabilities approach. - Study of the definitions and measurement of poverty and inequality. - Understanding of the global challenges generated by poverty and inequalities, and problems linked to their governance. - Knowledge of the approach of multidimensional poverty and its relationship with sustainable development. - Ability to understand the concept of inequality of opportunities and its normative and functional relevance. - Ability to understand and implement a gender perspective in the measurement of capabilities, poverty, inequality and health and education indicators. - Knowledge of the main theories explaining sustainable development and capabilities and welfare. - Knowledge of the concept of food security and its relationship with poverty, hunger and humanitarian crisis. - Capacity to understand the interaction between food vulnerability and the economic and institutional characteristics of land use and property. - Knowledge of the main theories that explain the capabilities and welfare dimensions of sustainable development.

1.Sen¿s capabilities approach and the human development index. 2.Income poverty: definition and measurement. Absolute and relative poverty. National and international poverty lines and the 1.25 US dollar per day. 3.Multidimensional poverty. Extreme poverty and hunger. 4.Inequality. Normative issues and measurement. Gini coefficient and General Entropy Index. 5.Structural inequality and inequality of opportunities. 6.The gender dimension in the measurement of poverty and inequality. 7.Global challenges generated by poverty, inequalities and their governance. 8.International and regional institutions, their role in generating collective action to alleviate hunger, poverty and inequality, and respective challenges.

- Theorical classes - Practical classes with discussions of recent contribution of the literature - Tutorial classes - Teamwork with analysis of applied cases