Poverty Measurement

Author : Jean-Yves Duclos,Abdelkrim Araar
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Valentin Beck,Henning Hahn,Robert Lepenies
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030317119

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Dimensions of Poverty by Valentin Beck,Henning Hahn,Robert Lepenies Pdf

This anthology constitutes an important contribution to the interdisciplinary debate on poverty measurement and alleviation. Absolute and relative poverty—both within and across state boundaries—are standardly measured and evaluated in monetary terms. However, poverty researchers have highlighted the shortfalls of one-dimensional monetary metrics. A new consensus is emerging that effectively addressing poverty requires a nuanced understanding of poverty as a relational phenomenon involving deprivations in multiple dimensions, including health, standard of living, education and political participation. This volume advances the debate on poverty by providing a forum for philosophers and empirical researchers. It combines philosophically sound analysis and genuinely global research on poverty's social embeddedness. Next to an introduction to this interdisciplinary field—which links Practical Philosophy, Development Economics, Political Science, and Sociology—it contains articles by leading international experts and early career scholars. The contributors analyse the concept of poverty, detail its multiple dimensions, reveal epistemic injustices in poverty research, and reflect on the challenges of poverty-related social activism. The unifying theme connecting this volume's contributions is that poverty must be understood as a multidimensional and socially relational phenomenon, and that this insight can enhance our efforts to measure and alleviate poverty.

Author : Udaya Wagle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780387758756

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Multidimensional Poverty Measurement by Udaya Wagle Pdf

Multidimensional approaches have increasingly been used to understand poverty, but have yet to be fully operationalized. This methodical and important book uses factor analysis and structural equations modelling to develop a multidimensional framework that integrates capability and social inclusion as additional poverty indicators. The empirical relevance of this methodological contribution is demonstrated through in-depth case studies of the United States and Nepal.

Author : Anthony B. Atkinson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Channing Arndt,Finn Tarp
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198744801

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Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries by Channing Arndt,Finn Tarp Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for more than three decades. The large majority of developing countries now regularly conduct a variety of household surveys, and the information base in developing countries with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes with respect to poverty reduction are high; (ii) the determinants of living standards are often volatile; and (iii) related information bases, while much improved, are often characterized by significant non-sample error. It also remains, to a surprisingly high degree, an activity undertaken by technical assistance personnel and consultants based in developed countries. This book seeks to enhance the transparency, replicability, and comparability of existing practice. In so doing, it also aims to significantly lower the barriers to entry to the conduct of rigorous poverty measurement and increase the participation of analysts from developing countries in their own poverty assessments. The book focuses on two domains: the measurement of absolute consumption poverty and a first order dominance approach to multidimensional welfare analysis. In each domain, it provides a series of flexible computer codes designed to facilitate analysis by allowing the analyst to start from a flexible and known base. The book volume covers the theoretical grounding for the code streams provided, a chapter on 'estimation in practice', a series of 11 case studies where the code streams are operationalized, as well as a synthesis, an extension to inequality, and a look forward.

Author : Sabina Alkire,James Foster,Suman Seth,Maria Emma Santos,José Manuel Roche,Paola Ballon
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191003639

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Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis by Sabina Alkire,James Foster,Suman Seth,Maria Emma Santos,José Manuel Roche,Paola Ballon Pdf

Multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis is evolving rapidly. Notably, it has informed the publication of the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) estimates in the Human Development Reports of the United Nations Development Programme since 2010, and the release of national poverty measures in Mexico, Colombia, Bhutan, the Philippines and Chile. The academic response has been similarly swift, with related articles published in both theoretical and applied journals. The high and insistent demand for in-depth and precise accounts of multidimensional poverty measurement motivates this book, which is aimed at graduate students in quantitative social sciences, researchers of poverty measurement, and technical staff in governments and international agencies who create multidimensional poverty measures. The book is organized into four elements. The first introduces the framework for multidimensional measurement and provides a lucid overview of a range of multidimensional techniques and the problems each can address. The second part gives a synthetic introduction of 'counting' approaches to multidimensional poverty measurement and provides an in-depth account of the counting multidimensional poverty measurement methodology developed by Alkire and Foster, which is a straightforward extension of the well-known Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures that had a significant and lasting impact on income poverty measurement. The final two parts deal with the pre-estimation issues such as normative choices and distinctive empirical techniques used in measure design, and the post-estimation issues such as robustness tests, statistical inferences, comparisons over time, and assessments of inequality among the poor.

Author : S. Wisor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230357471

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Measuring Global Poverty by S. Wisor Pdf

The author examines the moral, methodological, and practical problems that arise from poverty measurement. He establishes a methodological framework for analyzing poverty conceptions and measures, and concludes with concrete recommendations regarding both the procedures for and substance of future global poverty measurement.

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 : 41,8 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 : Pramod Kumar Chaubey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Poverty
ISBN : UOM:39015029960286

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Poverty Measurement by Pramod Kumar Chaubey Pdf

Author : Martin Ravallion
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190212773

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The Economics of Poverty by Martin Ravallion Pdf

"An overview of the economic development of and policies intended to combat poverty around the world"--

Author : Louis-Marie Asselin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781441908438

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Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty by Louis-Marie Asselin Pdf

Poverty is a paradoxical state. Recognizable in the eld for any sensitive observer who travels in remote rural areas and urban slums and meets marginalized people in a given society, poverty still remains a challenge to conceptual formalization and to measurement that is consistent with such formalization. The analysis of poverty is multidisciplinary. It goes from ethics to economics, from political science to human biology, and any type of measurement rests on mathematics. Moreover, poverty is multifaceted according to the types of deprivation, and it is also gender and age speci c. A vector of variables is required, which raises a substantial problem for individual and group comparisons necessary to equity analysis. Multidimension- ity also complicates the aggregation necessary to perform the ef ciency analysis of policies. In the case of income poverty, these two problems, equity and ef ciency, have bene ted from very signi cant progress in the eld of economics. Similar achievements are still to come in the area of multidimensional poverty. Within this general background, this book has a very modest and narrow-scoped objective. It proposes an operational methodology for measuring multidimensional poverty, independent from the conceptual origin, the size and the qualitative as well as the quantitative nature of the primary indicators used to describe the poverty of an individual, a household or a sociodemographic entity.

Author : Sabina Alkire,José Manuel Roche,Paola Ballon,James Foster,Maria Emma Santos,Suman Seth
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Poverty
ISBN : 9780199689491

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Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis by Sabina Alkire,José Manuel Roche,Paola Ballon,James Foster,Maria Emma Santos,Suman Seth Pdf

A systematic conceptual, theoretical, and methodological introduction to multi-dimensional poverty measurement and analysis. It provides a lucid overview of the problems that a range of multidimensional techniques can address and sets out a synthetic introduction of counting and axiomatic approaches to multidimensional poverty measurement

Author : James Eric Foster,Suman Seth,Michael Lokshin,Zurab Sajaia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213607091

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A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality by James Eric Foster,Suman Seth,Michael Lokshin,Zurab Sajaia Pdf

The book is a companion how-to guide for ADePT Poverty and ADePT Inequality, a software designed to generate a rich set of diagnostic indicators for the assessment of poverty and inequality situation in a country.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780821398647

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A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality by World Bank Pdf

This book is an introduction to the theory and practice of poverty measurement. On completing this book you will be able to perform sophisticated analyses of income or consumption distribution for any standard household dataset using the ADePT program (a free download from the World Bank s website).

Author : Colin Menton
Publisher : Institute of Public Administration
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 9781904541615

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An Investigation of the Measurement of Poverty in Ireland by Colin Menton Pdf