Poverty Comparisons

Martin Ravallion (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

164 Seiten

1994 | 1. A.
Taylor and Francis (Verlag)
978-3-7186-5402-4 (ISBN)

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This monograph surveys the issues that need to be considered in answering questions relating to poverty comparisons. The strengths and weaknesses of past methods are discussed, and a summary of methodological recommendations is given. A number of new analytical tools are also described.

CONCEPTS AND METHODS OF POVERTY ANALYSIS; Conceptual Approaches to Measuring "Well-Being"; Using Household Surveys for Welfare Measurement; Some Alternative Measures; Poverty Lines; Adding Up Poverty Decompositions; The Robustness of Ordinal Poverty Comparisons; PUTTING THEORY INTO PRACTICE; How Well Can the Prevalence of Poverty in a Country be Predicted Without a Household Survey?; How Well Do Cross-Sectional Indicators Identify the Long-Term Poor?; Which Sector or Region has More Poverty?; How Reliable are Assessments of Progress in Poverty Reduction?; What is the Relative Importance of Growth versus Redistribution?; How Important are Different Sectors to Changes in Poverty?; How Do Price Changes Affect the Poor?; What are the Gains to the Poor from Targeted Poverty Reduction Schemes?.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.1994
Zusatzinfo	Farb., s/w. Abb.
Verlagsort	Chur
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	3-7186-5402-4 / 3718654024
ISBN-13	978-3-7186-5402-4 / 9783718654024
Zustand	Neuware