ISBN:
9781461452621
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (333 p)
Series Statement:
Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being v.9
Parallel Title:
Print version Poverty and Social Exclusion around the Mediterranean Sea
DDC:
305.569091822
Keywords:
Poverty -- Mediterranean Region
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Marginality, Social -- Mediterranean Region
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The events taking place in several of South Mediterranean countries since December 2010 show that multiple deprivations may be powerful drivers of political instability. Though improvements of the living conditions have been regularly principal demands along with civil and political liberties in the demonstrations, one of the main striking facts about this so-called "Arab Spring" is that poverty had not been given the same emphasis in southern Mediterranean countries during the last decades as in other areas of the developing and emerging world.Although the growing recognition that poverty is
Description / Table of Contents:
1.3.1 Data Description1.3.2 Investigation of Poverty by Dimension Over Time and Across the Five Countries; 1.3.3 Multidimensional Poverty Measures and Multidimensional Stochastic Dominance; 1.4…Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 2 Building a Material Deprivation Index in a Multinational Context: Lessons from the EU Experience; Abstract; 2.1…Introduction; 2.2…Learning from the EU Experience; 2.3…Selection of Items; 2.4…Dimensional Structure; 2.5…Weighting or Not Weighting?; 2.5.1 Equal Weights; 2.5.2 Unequal Weights; 2.6…Conclusions; Acknowledgments
Description / Table of Contents:
A.0. Annex 1: Dimensional Structure: Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Cronbach AlphaA.0. Annex 2: Weighting; A.0. 2.9…Annex 3; A.0. 2.10…Annex 4; References; Part IIAssessing Poverty; 3 A Family of Unit Consistent Multidimensional Poverty Indices; Abstract; 3.1…Introduction; 3.2…Postulates for an Index of Multidimensional Poverty; 3.3…The Characterization Theorem; 3.4…An Empirical Illustration; 3.5…Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; 4 Multidimensional and Fuzzy Measures of Poverty and Inequality in Turkey at National and Regional Level; Abstract; 4.1…Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
5.1…Introduction5.2…A Methodological Framework for Poverty Measurement; 5.2.1 The Monetary Poverty Index; 5.2.2 Stochastic Dominance; 5.2.3 The Poverty Index in a Multidimensional Framework; 5.2.4 Multidimensional Stochastic Dominance; 5.3…Poverty Measures and Poverty Comparisons Across Regions and Across Occupational Sectors; 5.3.1 Description of the Data and Dimensions of Poverty Used; 5.3.2 Regional and Sectoral Monetary Poverty Comparisons; 5.3.3 Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons; 5.4…Conclusion; References
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6 A Non-Monetary Multidimensional Poverty Analysis of Tunisia Using Generalized Sen-Shorrocks-Thon Measures
Description / Table of Contents:
Poverty and SocialExclusion Aroundthe Mediterranean Sea; Foreword; Contents; Introduction; Part ICross Country Studiesand a North-South Comparisonin the Study of Poverty; 1 Axiomatic and Robust Multidimensional Poverty Measurements in Five Southern Mediterranean Countries; Abstract; 1.1…Introduction; 1.2…Axiomatic and Stochastic Dominance Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty; 1.2.1 The Axiomatic Approach to Poverty; 1.2.2 Multidimensional Poverty Measures; 1.2.3 Ordinal Comparisons of Multidimensional Poverty; 1.3…Main Results for the Cases of Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey
Description / Table of Contents:
4.2…Theoretical Background to Poverty Measurement and New Proposals4.2.1 Proposal of a New Fuzzy Monetary indicator; 4.2.2 Proposal of a New Fuzzy Supplementary indicator; 4.3…EU-SILC Data Set, Identification of Items and Dimensions; 4.3.1 Transformation of the Items into the [0, 1] Interval; 4.3.2 Factor Analysis; 4.3.3 Calculation of Weights Within Each Dimension; 4.4…Empirical Analysis: Estimates at National and NUTS1 Levels; 4.5…Concluding remarks; Acknowledgments; A.1. 4.6…List of EU-SILC Variables; References; 5 Regional and Sectoral Distributions of Poverty in Lebanon, 2004; Abstract
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