Poverty and Equity
(Sprache: Englisch)
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. Most of the book's measurement and statistical...
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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. Most of the book's measurement and statistical tools have been programmed in DAD, a well established and widely available free software program that has been tailored especially for income distribution analysis and is used by scholars, researchers, and analysts in nearly 100 countries worldwide. It requires basic understanding of calculus and statistics. There are examples and exercises using real data.Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Poverty and Equity “
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
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
VI: Exercises.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Jean-Yves Duclos , Abdelkrim Araar
- 2006, 394 Seiten, Maße: 16,5 x 24,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer
- ISBN-10: 0387258930
- ISBN-13: 9780387258935
Sprache:
Englisch
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