Measuring Global Poverty : Toward a Pro-Poor Approach.

The author examines the moral, methodological, and practical problems that arise from poverty measurement. He establishes a methodological framework for analyzing poverty conceptions and measures, and concludes with concrete recommendations regarding both the procedures for and substance of future g...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wisor, Dr Scott
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Temas:
Poverty > Measurement.
Poverty > Measurement
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Part I A Framework for Analyzing Poverty; 1 Introducing Poverty Measurement; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Why poverty measurement matters; 1.3 For whom does poverty measurement matter?; 1.4 Different measures produce (very) different assessments; 1.5 The components of a poverty measure; 1.6 The key conceptual questions in poverty measurement; 1.7 Existing desiderata for poverty measures; 1.8 What poverty might be and is not; 1.9 Recent developments; 1.10 The rest of the book. 
505 8 |a 2 A Defense of Global Poverty Measurement2.1 The initial desirability of global poverty measurement; 2.2 Objection 1: poverty measurement is (and should be) subject to domestic deliberation; 2.3 Objection 2: global poverty measurement entails cosmopolitanism or global redistribution; 2.4 Objection 3: global poverty measurement is homogenizing; 2.5 Objection 4: problematic rank seeking behavior; 2.6 A qualified defense of composite indices; 2.7 Balancing global poverty measurement with local needs; 2.8 Conclusion; 3 A Pro-Poor Methodology; 3.1 Is poverty analysis question begging? 
505 8 |a 3.2 Poverty as essentially contestable3.3 Haslanger's three approaches to conceptual analysis; 3.4 Objections to an ameliorative approach; 3.5 Conclusion; Part II Competing Conceptions and Measures of Poverty; 4 Monetary Approaches; 4.1 Income and consumption-expenditure; 4.2 Strengths of the monetary approach; 4.3 Weaknesses of the income approach; 4.4 The World Bank's International Poverty Line; 4.5 Critique I: technical and conceptual issues; 4.6 Critique II: further charges against the IPL; 4.7 Conclusion; 5 Basic Needs; 5.1 Basic needs and poverty. 
505 8 |a 5.2 The basic needs approach critiqued and defended5.3 The measurement of basic needs deprivation; 5.4 The strengths of basic needs measurement; 5.5 The weaknesses of basic needs measurement; 5.6 Conclusion; 6 Capabilities; 6.1 Welfare, resources, and capabilities; 6.2 Poverty as capabilities deprivation; 6.3 Resources and capabilities revisited; 6.4 Capabilities measurement; 6.5 The multidimensional poverty index; 6.6 The MPI critiqued; 6.7 Conclusion; 7 Social Exclusion; 7.1 History and current use; 7.2 Poverty and social exclusion; 7.3 Social exclusion measurement; 7.4 Strengths. 
505 8 |a 7.5 Weaknesses7.6 Conclusion; 8 Rights; 8.1 Rights defined; 8.2 Rights justified; 8.3 Anti-poverty rights; 8.4 Challenges to anti-poverty rights; 8.5 Rights based poverty measurement; 8.6 Remaining challenges; 8.7 Conclusion; Part III The Way Forward; 9 New Values, New Desiderata; 9.1 Values; 9.2 Horizontal equity; 9.3 Agency; 9.4 Contextualism; 9.5 Serves the legitimate interests of affected people; 9.6 Individual as unit of analysis; 9.7 Capable of revealing group-based disparity; 9.8 Cross-culturally sharable and applicable; 9.9 Can be used by and for poor people. 
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