ISBN:
0198067941
,
9780198067948
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 298 S.
,
graph. Darst.
,
23 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
DDC:
338.9
Keywords:
Armut
;
Soziale Ungleichheit
;
Bevölkerungsstruktur
;
Soziale Lage
;
Entwicklung
;
Indien
;
Economic development
;
Economic development Social aspects
;
Poverty
;
Equality
;
India Statistics Population
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Indien
;
Armut
;
Bekämpfung
;
Bevölkerungsentwicklung
Abstract:
Addresses the ability to measure the categories of poverty, inequality, and population; the role of measurement in social explanation; and the philosophical bases of measurement-related judgments
Description / Table of Contents:
Out of school and (probably) in work : child labour and capability deprivation in IndiaPoverty-eradication through redistributive taxation : some elementary considerations -- Poverty and discrimination : measurement and evidence from rural India -- Horizontal and vertical inequality : some interconnections and indicators -- The distribution of household wealth in India -- Comparing the age structures of populations -- Assessing the 'agedness' of a population -- Assessing the 'femaleness' of a population -- Women's well-being and the sex ratio at birth : some suggestive evidence from India -- The well-being implications of a change in the sex-ratio of a population -- Manufacturing hysteria : on census-inspired 'nationalism' -- Abusing demography.
Description / Table of Contents:
Out of school and (probably) in work : child labour and capability deprivation in India -- Poverty-eradication through redistributive taxation : some elementary considerations -- Poverty and discrimination : measurement and evidence from rural India -- Horizontal and vertical inequality : some interconnections and indicators -- The distribution of household wealth in India -- Comparing the age structures of populations -- Assessing the 'agedness' of a population -- Assessing the 'femaleness' of a population -- Women's well-being and the sex ratio at birth : some suggestive evidence from India -- The well-being implications of a change in the sex-ratio of a population -- Manufacturing hysteria : on census-inspired 'nationalism' -- Abusing demography.
Note:
Essays; previously published. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [284]-298)
