Poverty Monitoring: An International Concern

Rolph Hoeven, Richard Anker (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

1993 | 1994 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-59354-7 (ISBN)

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This volume assembles the major papers discussed at an international workshop on poverty monitoring to evaluate poverty indicators and poverty monitoring systems. It aims to focus more attention on poverty issues and improve policies for alleviating poverty.

Foreword - a challenge to poverty, Richard Jolly et al. Part 1 Measurement and trends of poverty: measurement and trends of poverty, Gary S. Fields; poverty concepts and measurement, Paul Streeten; the evolution of poverty in Latin America in the 1980s, Pedro Sainz. Part 2 Poverty indicators: poverty measurement and alternative indicators, Julio Boltvinik; the human development report 1990 and the world development report 1990, Ravi Kanbur. Part 3 Planning for poverty alleviation in a context of adjustment: monitoring poverty and employment trends - an index for the social debt, Ricardo Infante and Victor Tokman; can safety nets and compensatory programmes be used for poverty alleviation, Rolph van der Hoeven; budgetary policy and social planning - listing some issues for the agenda, Ricardo Carciofi. Part 4 Rapid policy action for vulnerable groups: rapid policy interventions, Paul Streeten; identifying and targeting poverty alleviation in Chile, Alvaro Garcia; towards a rapid assessment survey of poverty, Richard Bilsborrow. Part 5 International agencies' perspectives on poverty - poverty alleviation - how can UNICEF contribute?, Eva Jespersen; on improving public policies for the poor, Ehthisam Ahmad and Nigel Chalk; poverty estimates for the ILO's world labour report, Wouter van Ginneken. Part 6 Conclusions, Richard Anker et al.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.11.1993
Zusatzinfo	XIX, 224 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-333-59354-5 / 0333593545
ISBN-13	978-0-333-59354-7 / 9780333593547
Zustand	Neuware