Poverty and equity : measurement, policy and estimation with DAD / by Jean-Yves Duclos, Abdelkrim Araar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duclos, Jean-Yves.

Contributor:

Araar, Abdelkrim.

Series:

Economic studies in inequality, social exclusion and well-being ; 2.

Economic studies in inequality, social exclusion and well-being ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty.

Equality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer ; Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text addresses the understanding and alleviation of poverty, inequality, and inequity using a unique and broad mix of concepts, measurement methods, statistical tools, software, and practical exercises. Part I discusses basic fundamental issues of well-being and poverty measurement. Part II develops an integrated framework for measuring poverty, social welfare, inequality, vertical equity, horizontal equity, and redistribution. Part III presents and develops recent methods for testing the robustness of distributive rankings. Part IV discusses ways of using policy to alleviate poverty, improve welfare, increase equity, and assess the impact of growth. Part V applies the tools to real data.

Contents:

Intro

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

1. WELL-BEING AND POVERTY

1.1 The welfarist approach

1.2 Non-welfarist approaches

1.3 A graphical illustration

1.4 Practical measurement difficulties for the non-welfarist approaches

1.5 Poverty measurement and public policy

2. THE EMPIRICAL MEASUREMENT OF WELL-BEING

2.1 Survey issues

2.2 Income versus consumption

2.3 Price variability

2.4 Household heterogeneity

2.5 References for Chapters 1 and 2

3. INTRODUCTION AND NOTATION

3.1 Continuous distributions

3.2 Discrete distributions

3.3 Poverty gaps

3.4 Cardinal versus ordinal comparisons

4. MEASURING INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL WELFARE

4.1 Lorenz curves

4.2 Gini indices

4.3 Social welfare and inequality

4.4 Social welfare

4.5 Statistical and descriptive indices of inequality

4.6 Decomposing inequality by population subgroups

4.7 Appendix: the Shapley value

4.8 References

5. MEASURING POVERTY

5.1 Poverty indices

5.2 Group-decomposable poverty indices

5.3 Poverty and inequality

5.4 Poverty curves

5.5 S-Gini poverty indices

5.6 Normalizing poverty indices

5.7 Decomposing poverty

5.8 References

6. ESTIMATING POVERTY LINES

6.1 Absolute and relative poverty lines

6.2 Social exclusion and relative deprivation

6.3 Estimating absolute poverty lines

6.4 Estimating relative and subjective poverty lines

6.5 References

7. MEASURING PROGRESSIVITY AND VERTICAL EQUITY

7.1 Taxes and transfers

7.2 Concentration curves

7.3 Concentration indices

7.4 Decomposition of inequality into income components

7.5 Progressivity comparisons

7.6 Tax and income redistribution

7.7 References

8. HORIZONTAL EQUITY, RERANKING AND REDISTRIBUTION

8.1 Ethical and other foundations.

8.2 Measuring reranking and redistribution

8.3 Measuring classical horizontal inequity and redistribution

8.4 References

9. DISTRIBUTIVE DOMINANCE

9.1 Ordering distributions

9.2 Sensitivity of poverty comparisons

9.3 Ordinal comparisons

9.4 Ethical judgements

9.5 References

10. POVERTY DOMINANCE

10.1 Primal approach

10.2 Dual approach

10.3 Assessing the limits to dominance

10.4 References

11. WELFARE AND INEQUALITY DOMINANCE

11.1 Ethical welfare judgments

11.2 Tests of welfare dominance

11.3 Inequality judgments

11.4 Tests of inequality dominance

11.5 Inequality and progressivity

11.6 Social welfare and Lorenz curves

11.7 The distributive impact of benefits

11.8 Pro-poor growth

11.9 References

12. POVERTY ALLEVIATION: POLICY AND GROWTH

12.1 The impact of targeting

12.2 The impact of changes in the poverty line

12.3 Price changes

12.4 Tax and subsidy reforms

12.5 Income-component and sectoral growth

12.6 Overall growth elasticity of poverty

12.7 The Gini elasticity of poverty

12.8 The impact of policy and growth on inequality

12.9 References

13. TARGETING IN THE PRESENCE OF REDISTRIBUTIVE COSTS

13.1 Poverty alleviation, redistributive costs and targeting

13.2 Costly targeting

13.3 References

14. AN INTRODUCTION TO DAD: A SOFTWARE FOR DISTRIBUTIVE ANALYSIS

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Loading, editing and saving databases in DAD

14.3 Inputting the sampling design information

14.4 Applications in DAD: basic procedures

14.5 Curves

14.6 Graphs

14.7 Statistical inference: sampling distributions, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing

14.8 References

15. NON-PARAMETRIC ESTIMATION IN DAD

15.1 Density estimation

15.2 Non-parametric regressions

15.3 References

16. ESTIMATION AND STATISTICAL INFERENCE.

16.1 Sampling design

16.2 Sampling weights

16.3 Stratification

16.4 Multi-stage sampling

16.5 Impact of sampling design on sampling variability

16.6 Estimating a sampling distribution with complex sample designs

16.7 References

17. STATISTICAL INFERENCE IN PRACTICE

17.1 Asymptotic distributions

17.2 Hypothesis testing

17.3 p-values and confidence intervals

17.4 Statistical inference using a non-pivotal bootstrap

17.5 Hypothesis testing and confidence intervals using pivotal bootstrap statistics

17.6 References

18. EXERCISES

18.1 Household size and living standards

18.2 Aggregative weights and poverty analysis

18.3 Absolute and relative poverty

18.4 Estimating poverty lines

18.5 Descriptive data analysis

18.6 Decomposing poverty

18.7 Poverty dominance

18.8 Fiscal incidence, growth, equity and poverty

18.9 Sampling designs and sampling distributions

18.10 Equivalence scales and statistical units

18.11 Description of illustrative data sets

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-375) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-280-71826-9

9786610718269

1-55250-229-5