M.A. Titled “Absolute & Relative Poverty”. The work by Cheryl Bourassa falls under the category of a review; it is actually an essay that is analyzing other research work carried out by other researchers. The reason as to why I have classified it under review is because there are a lot of quotes from the work of other people and frequently refers to them. Research work is divided into different categories and this work can be put under Qualitative research (Wagner