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Measuring Multidimensional Poverty and Deprivation : Incidence and Determinants in Developed Countries.
This edited collection provides a comprehensive examination of multidimensional poverty for a wide variety of economies and societies, with a general focus on multidimensional poverty in developed countries, where poverty is often overlooked. Arguing that income- and consumption-based poverty measur...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing,
2017.
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| Colección: | Global perspectives on wealth and distribution.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1 Multidimensional Poverty and Deprivation: An Introduction ; References; Chapter 2 The Politics of Poverty Measurement and Social Policies: Global Observations ; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Politics of Poverty Measurement; 2.3 Hypotheses and Empirical Strategy; 2.4 Poverty Lines in Practice Globally; 2.5 Poverty Measurement and Outcomes in South Asia; 2.6 Conclusion; Appendix: Country Listing and Data Coverage; References; Chapter 3 Efficiency and Distributive Justice in Multidimensional Poverty Issues ; 3.1 Introduction.
- 3.2 Theoretical Background3.3 The Aggregation Step; 3.4 The Axiomatic Foundation for Ordinal Poverty Measures; 3.4.1 Non-distributional Axioms; 3.4.2 Distributional Axioms; 3.5 Correlation-Sensitive Poverty Measures; 3.5.1 The Multidimensional Bossert, Chakravarty and D'Ambrosio Class of Poverty Measures; 3.5.2 The Multidimensional Chakravarty and D'Ambrosio Class of Poverty Measures; 3.5.3 The Multidimensional Alkire and Foster Class of Poverty Measures; 3.5.4 The Multidimensional Correlation-Sensitive Class of Poverty Measures; 3.5.5 Poverty Decompositions; 3.6 Poverty in India.
- 3.7 ConclusionAppendix; References; Chapter 4 An Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty: Evidence from Italy ; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Data Description; 4.3 Methodology; 4.4 Results; 4.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5 Economic Vulnerability in Spain: Before, During, and "After" Crisis ; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Data and Methodology; 5.2.1 Income; 5.2.2 Material Deprivation; 5.2.3 Economic Stress; 5.3 Results; 5.4 Who Were the Vulnerable? Vulnerability Profiles in 2004; 5.5 Vulnerability Dynamics Through Economic Crisis; 5.6 Concluding Remarks; References.
- Chapter 6 Material Deprivation, Health and Well-Being in Older Age: A Comparative Analysis of 14 European Countries 6.1 Background; 6.2 Data, Methods and Analysis; 6.3 The Association Between Material Deprivation and Health and Well-Being; 6.4 Policy Actions and Decision-Making: Can We Reduce Material Deprivation Inequalities?; References; Chapter 7 Immigrant-Native Differences in Multidimensional Poverty After the Great Recession: A Comparison of Five European Countries ; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Literature Review; 7.3 Global Context; 7.4 Data and Methodology; 7.4.1 The Source of Data.
- 7.4.2 Multidimensional Poverty Index7.5 Empirical Results; 7.5.1 Global Results for the EU-5; 7.5.2 Country Differences; 7.5.3 Age Breakdown; 7.5.4 Dimensional Decomposition; 7.6 Conclusions; References; Chapter 8 Multidimensional Poverty Among the Native- and Foreign-Born in the United States: Evidence from the 2010-2014 American Community Surveys ; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 The Literature on Multidimensional Poverty in the United States; 8.3 Data, Methodology, and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement; 8.3.1 Dimensions and Indicators; 8.3.2 Weights, Thresholds, and MPI Measurement.