Poverty and equity : measurement, policy and estimation with DAD /
This text addresses the understanding and alleviation of poverty, inequality, and inequity using a unique and broad mix of concepts, measurement methods, statistical tools, software, and practical exercises. Part I discusses basic fundamental issues of well-being and poverty measurement. Part II dev...
| Основен автор: | Duclos, Jean-Yves. |
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| Други автори: | Araar, Abdelkrim. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Springer,
2006.
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| Серия: |
Economic studies in inequality, social exclusion and well-being ;
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=202044 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Poverty and equity. |
Съдържание:
- I. Conceptual and methodological issues: Well-being and poverty
- The empirical measurement of well-being
- II. Measuring poverty and equity: Introduction and notation
- Measuring inequality and social welfare
- Measuring poverty
- Estimating poverty lines
- Measuring progressivity and vertical equity
- Horizontal equity, reranking, and redistribution
- III. Ordinal comparisons: Distributive dominance
- Poverty dominance
- Welfare and inequality dominance
- IV. Policy and growth: Poverty alleviation: policy and growth
- Targeting in the presence of redistributive costs
- Part V: Estimation and inference: An introduction DAD: a software for distributive analysis
- Non parametric estimation in DAD
- Estimation and statistical inference
- Statistical inference in practice
- Part VI: Exercises.