Getting The Measure Of Poverty

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance: Concepts, Information Needs, and Measurement Methods
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309051286

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Measuring Poverty by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance: Concepts, Information Needs, and Measurement Methods Pdf

Each year's poverty figures are anxiously awaited by policymakers, analysts, and the media. Yet questions are increasing about the 30-year-old measure as social and economic conditions change. In Measuring Poverty a distinguished panel provides policymakers with an up-to-date evaluation of: Concepts and procedures for deriving the poverty threshold, including adjustments for different family circumstances. Definitions of family resources. Procedures for annual updates of poverty measures. The volume explores specific issues underlying the poverty measure, analyzes the likely effects of any changes on poverty rates, and discusses the impact on eligibility for public benefits. In supporting its recommendations the panel provides insightful recognition of the political and social dimensions of this key economic indicator. Measuring Poverty will be important to government officials, policy analysts, statisticians, economists, researchers, and others involved in virtually all poverty and social welfare issues.

Author : Jonathan Bradshaw,Roy Sainsbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351933735

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Getting the Measure of Poverty by Jonathan Bradshaw,Roy Sainsbury Pdf

A collection of papers with an historical theme, representing a fundamental review of 'A Study of Town Life' and its impact on the study of poverty and on wider empirical research.

Author : Jean-Yves Duclos,Abdelkrim Araar
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0387258930

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Poverty and Equity by Jean-Yves Duclos,Abdelkrim Araar Pdf

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 develops an integrated framework for measuring poverty, social welfare, inequality, vertical equity, horizontal equity, and redistribution. Part III presents and develops recent methods for testing the robustness of distributive rankings. Part IV discusses ways of using policy to alleviate poverty, improve welfare, increase equity, and assess the impact of growth. Part V applies the tools to real data. 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. Abdelkrim Araar and Jean-Yves Duclos teach economics at Université Laval in Québec City.

Author : Anthony B. Atkinson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9780691191225

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Measuring Poverty Around the World by Anthony B. Atkinson Pdf

The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality—a critically important examination of poverty around the world In this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of the world’s great social scientists and a pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality, offers an inspiring analysis of a central question: What is poverty and how much of it is there around the globe? The persistence of poverty—in rich and poor countries alike—is one of the most serious problems facing humanity. Better measurement of poverty is essential for raising awareness, motivating action, designing good policy, gauging progress, and holding political leaders accountable for meeting targets. To help make this possible, Atkinson provides a critically important examination of how poverty is—and should be—measured. Bringing together evidence about the nature and extent of poverty across the world and including case studies of sixty countries, Atkinson addresses both financial poverty and other indicators of deprivation. He starts from first principles about the meaning of poverty, translates these into concrete measures, and analyzes the data to which the measures can be applied. Crucially, he integrates international organizations’ measurements of poverty with countries’ own national analyses. Atkinson died before he was able to complete the book, but at his request it was edited for publication by two of his colleagues, John Micklewright and Andrea Brandolini. In addition, François Bourguignon and Nicholas Stern provide afterwords that address key issues from the unfinished chapters: how poverty relates to growth, inequality, and climate change. The result is an essential contribution to efforts to alleviate poverty around the world.

Author : Canadian Council for Social Development
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0888103468

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Not Enough by Canadian Council for Social Development Pdf

At the time of this study's publication in 1984, 26 per cent--2.3 million--Canadian households lived below the poverty line; over 100,000 families subsisted on less than $5000 a year; social assistance rates provided about half of what a family required to survive. Not Enough: The Meaning and Measurement of Poverty in Canada, the report of a national task force on poverty, asserts that "serious deprivation does exist in Canada." Not Enough provides a range of detailed information, charts and graphs dealing with the extent, depth and length of poverty in Canada in the 1980s. The report is especially attentive to the regional distribution of poverty, to its increasing "feminization", and to the difficulties disabled people face maintaining their dignity in the face of chronically restricted budgets. Not Enough is a detailed snapshot of the recent past of a crippling social problem that remains with us today.

Author : Jack McNeil,Doug Sater,Arno Winard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Poverty
ISBN : IND:30000043836372

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The Measure of Poverty by Jack McNeil,Doug Sater,Arno Winard Pdf

Author : Roy Sainsbury,Jonathan Bradshaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015050127037

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Getting the Measure of Poverty by Roy Sainsbury,Jonathan Bradshaw Pdf

A collection of papers with a historical theme, representing a fundamental review of 'A Study of Town Life' and its impact on poverty studies and wider empirical research.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Poverty
ISBN : OCLC:36428152

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Measuring Poverty by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jack McNeil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Poverty
ISBN : IND:30000043836380

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The Measure of Poverty by Jack McNeil Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9211171377

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Guide on Poverty Measurement by Anonim Pdf

Vejledning om anvendelse af forskellige målemetoder, med det formål at forbedre den internationale sammenlignelighed af fattigdomsstatistikker.

Author : Stephan Klasen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Poverty
ISBN : 1786436949

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Measuring Poverty by Stephan Klasen Pdf

This impressive collection brings together the most important contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field of poverty measurement. It includes critical papers on what constitutes poverty and associated poverty measures, as well as conceptual and empirical approaches to set poverty lines for both national and international settings. The volume also discusses national and international income poverty measures, multidimensional poverty indices, and ways to capture poverty dynamics. With an original introduction by the editor, this collection will be an essential resource for scholars and students of development economics and social policy.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Building an Agenda to Reduce the Number of Children in Poverty by Half in 10 Years
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309483988

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A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Building an Agenda to Reduce the Number of Children in Poverty by Half in 10 Years Pdf

The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults. Capable, responsible, and healthy adults are clearly the foundation of a well-functioning and prosperous society, yet America's future is not as secure as it could be because millions of American children live in families with incomes below the poverty line. A wealth of evidence suggests that a lack of adequate economic resources for families with children compromises these children's ability to grow and achieve adult success, hurting them and the broader society. A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty reviews the research on linkages between child poverty and child well-being, and analyzes the poverty-reducing effects of major assistance programs directed at children and families. This report also provides policy and program recommendations for reducing the number of children living in poverty in the United States by half within 10 years.

Author : Angus Deaton
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801852544

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The Analysis of Household Surveys by Angus Deaton Pdf

Using data from several countries, including Cote d'Ivoire, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, and Thailand, this book analyzes household survey data from developing countries and illustrates how such data can be used to cast light on a range of short-term and long-term policy issues.

Author : Janice Peskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Federal aid to education
ISBN : OCLC:2583250

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The Measure of Poverty by Janice Peskin Pdf

Author : Cesar Calvo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1308961496

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Chronic Poverty and All that by Cesar Calvo Pdf

We explore how to measure poverty over time, by focusing on trajectories of poverty rather than poverty at a particular point in time. We consider welfare outcomes over a period in time, consisting of a number of spells. We offer a characterization of desirable properties for measuring poverty across these spells, as well as an explicit discussion of three issues. First, should there be scope for compensation so that a poor spell can be compensated for by a non-poor spell? Second, is there scope for discounting or should all spells be equally valued? Third, does the actual sequence of poor spells matter, for example whether they are consecutive or not? We offer a number of measures that implicitly offer different answers to these questions, in a world of certainty. Finally, we also offer an extension towards a forward-looking measure of vulnerability, defined as the threat of poverty over time, that incorporates risk. An application to data from Ethiopia shows that especially the assumption of compensation results in different inference on poverty.