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Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement / edited by N. Kakwani, J. Silber.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Development economics.
- Social choice.
- Welfare economics.
- Econometrics.
- Economic development.
- Development Economics.
- Social Choice and Welfare.
- Development Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Development Economics.
- Social Choice and Welfare.
- Econometrics.
- Development Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2008.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is written in light of the latest developments in the field of multidimensional poverty measurement. It includes clear presentations of more than a dozen different quantitative techniques and provides empirical illustrations based on data sources from developed or developing countries.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction: On Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement; 1 The Information Basis of Multivariate Poverty Assesments; 2 The Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty: the Case of Italy in the 1990s; 3 The Rasch Model and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement; 4 A Cluster Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty in Switzerland; 5 Multidimensional Poverty and Multiple Correspondence Analysis
- 6 Income, Consumption and Permanent Income: a MIMIC Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement7 Multidimensional Measures of Poverty and Well-being Based on Latent Variable Models; 8 A Multidimensional Approach to Subjective Poverty; 9 Using Efficiency Analysis to Measure Individual Well-being With an Illustration for Catalonia; 10 Efficiency Analysis and the Lower Convex Hull Approach; 11 Measuring Multidimensional Poverty: The Axiomatic Approach
- 12 Determining the Parameters of Axiomatically Derived Multidimensional Poverty Indices: An Application Based on Reported Well-Being in Colombia13 The Order of Acquisition of Durable Goods and the Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty; 14 Using an Ordinal Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Analysis; Index
- Notes:
- Papers originally presented at an international conference in Brasilia on August 29-31, 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611914448
- 9781281914446
- 1281914444
- 9780230582354
- 0230582354
- OCLC:
- 314769671
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