ISBN:
9780415636346
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (344 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Social Economics
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Social Economics Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Poverty and Social Exclusion : New Methods of Analysis
DDC:
305.569
Keywords:
Marginality, Social
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Poverty ; Measurement
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Poverty ; Social aspects
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Poverty and inequality remain at the top of the global economic agenda, and the methodology of measuring poverty continues to be a key area of research. This new book, from a leading international group of scholars, offers an up to date and innovative survey of new methods for estimating poverty at the local level, as well as the most recent multidimensional methods of the dynamics of poverty.It is argued here that measures of poverty and inequality are most useful to policy-makers and researchers when they are finely disaggregated into small geographic units. Poverty and S
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Contributors; 1 Introduction; PART I Multidimensional poverty; 2 Measuring multidimensional deprivation with dichotomized and ordinal variables; 3 Poverty and the dimensionality of welfare; 4 Income, material deprivation and social exclusion in Israel; 5 Multidimensional and fuzzy measures of poverty and inequality at national and regional level in Mozambique; PART II Longitudinal and chronic poverty; 6 On assessing the time-dimension of poverty; 7 Intertemporal material deprivation; 8 Measuring chronic poverty
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Measuring intertemporal poverty: policy options for the poverty analyst10 Measuring levels and trends in absolute poverty in the world: open questions and possible alternatives; PART III Small area estimation methods; 11 Small area methodology in poverty mapping: an introductory overview; 12 Small area estimation of poverty using the ELL/PovMap method, and its alternatives; 13 Estimation of poverty measures in small areas; 14 The use of spatial information for the estimation of poverty indicators at the small area level
Description / Table of Contents:
15 Outlier robust semi-parametric small area methods for poverty estimation16 Poverty and social exclusion in 3D: multidimensional, longitudinal and small area estimation; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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