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Poverty and Social Exclusion : New Methods of Analysis.

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Betti, Gianni
Otros Autores: Lemmi, Achille
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Colección:Routledge advances in social economics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 15 Outlier robust semi-parametric small area methods for poverty estimation16 Poverty and social exclusion in 3D: multidimensional, longitudinal and small area estimation; Index.