Handbook on poverty and inequality /
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Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
World Bank,
©2009.
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Colección: | World Bank e-Library.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- What is poverty and why measure it?
- Measuring poverty
- Poverty lines
- Measures of poverty
- Poverty indexes : checking for robustness
- Inequality measures
- Describing poverty : poverty profiles
- Understanding the determinants of poverty
- Poverty reduction policies
- International poverty comparisons
- The analysis of poverty over time
- Vulnerability to poverty
- Poverty monitoring and evaluation
- Using regression
- The effects of taxation and spending on inequality and poverty
- Using survey data : some cautionary tales.