Measuring poverty around the world /

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In this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of the world's great social scientists and a pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality, offers an inspiring analysis of a central question: What is poverty and how much of it is there around the globe? The persistence of poverty - in...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Atkinson, A. B. (Anthony Barnes), 1944-2017 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Welt.
Poverty.
Poverty > Case studies.
Equality.
Poverty > Research.
Poverty
Pauvreté.
Pauvreté > Études de cas.
poverty.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Economic Development.
Armut
Messung
Entwicklungsländer
Amartya Sen.
Angus Deaton.
Asian Development Bank.
Atlas method.
Calculation.
Cambodia.
Capability approach.
Case study.
Central Statistical Office (Poland).
Child poverty.
Climate change mitigation.
Climate change.
Commodity.
Consumer.
Consumption (economics).
Demographic and Health Surveys.
Developed country.
Developing country.
Development aid.
Disposable and discretionary income.
Economic growth.
Economic inequality.
Economy.
Employment.
Estimation.
Eurostat.
Extreme poverty.
Family income.
Famine.
Finding.
Head of Household.
Household income.
Household.
Human Development Index.
Human Development Report.
Imputed rent.
Income distribution.
Income.
Kenya.
Latin America.
Malaysia.
Martin Ravallion.
Measurement.
Measures of national income and output.
Median income.
Millennium Development Goals.
Month.
Multidimensional Poverty Index.
National Report.
National Statistical Office (South Korea).
National accounts.
No Poverty.
Oxford University Press.
Percentage point.
Percentage.
Poverty in China.
Poverty in India.
Poverty in Poland.
Poverty in the United States.
Poverty reduction.
Poverty threshold.
Prevalence.
Price index.
Public economics.
Purchasing power.
Requirement.
Rural area.
Rural poverty.
Sabina Alkire.
Sampling (statistics).
Saving.
Social exclusion.
Social protection.
South Asia.
Standard of living.
Statistic.
Statistics South Africa.
Survey methodology.
Sustainable Development Goals.
Tanzania.
Tax.
Thomas Piketty.
Time series.
Trade-off.
Uganda Bureau of Statistics.
Uganda.
Unemployment.
United Nations Development Programme.
United States Census Bureau.
Urbanization.
Wealth.
Workforce.
World Bank Group.
World Bank.
World Development Indicators.
World Development Report.
World population.
Year.
Zambia.
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • What do we mean by poverty?
  • Clarifying concepts
  • The key role of data
  • Global poverty and the sustainable development goals
  • Poverty in Asia and the pacific
  • Africa: diversity of experience
  • Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Poverty in rich countries and a global measure of poverty
  • Conclusions: beyond $1.90 a day
  • Growth, inequality, and poverty reduction
  • Poverty and climate change.

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