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Title

Poverty comparisons / Martin Ravallion.

Author

Ravallion, Martin.

Publication

Chur, Switzerland ; Philadelphia : Harwood Academic Publishers, 1994.

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Description

x, 145 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Fundamentals of pure and applied economics, 0191-1708 ; v. 56. Distribution section

Uniform Title

• Fundamentals of pure and applied economics ; v. 56.
• Fundamentals of pure and applied economics. Distribution section.

Subjects

• Poverty > Evaluation > Methodology
• Consumption (Economics) > Evaluation > Methodology
• Cost and standard of living > Evaluation > Methodology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-143) and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction -- 2. Concepts and Methods of Poverty Analysis. 2.1. Conceptual Approaches to Measuring 'Well-Being'. 2.2. Using Household Surveys for Welfare Measurement. 2.3. Some Alternative Measures. 2.4. Poverty Lines. 2.5. Adding Up Poverty. 2.6. Decompositions. 2.7. The Robustness of Ordinal Poverty Comparisons -- 3. Putting Theory into Practice. 3.1. How Well Can the Prevalence of Poverty in a Country be Predicted Without a Household Survey? 3.2. How Well do Cross-Sectional Indicators Identify the Long-Term Poor? 3.3. Which Sector or Region has More Poverty? 3.4. How Reliable are Assessments of Progress in Poverty Reduction? 3.5. What is the Relative Importance of Growth versus Redistribution? 3.6. How Important are Different Sectors to Changes in Poverty? 3.7. How do Price Changes Affect the Poor? 3.8. What are the Gains to the Poor from Targeted Poverty Alleviation Schemes? -- 4. Conclusions and Recommendations -- Appendix 1: A Method of Setting Poverty Lines.
• Appendix 2: Ordinal Poverty Comparisons: A Summary of Definitions and Results for Continuous Distributions.

ISBN

3718654024

LCCN

93014943

OCLC

• 27811603
• ocm27811603

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Columbia University Libraries