Poverty and Equity: Measurement, Policy and Estimation with DADIDRC, 2006 - 393 páginas 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. |
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adult equivalent approach assess Atkinson Index average poverty gap benefit calorie calorie intake Cameroon capability approach comparing comparisons compute concentration curve confidence intervals consumption Decomposition defined density distribution of income Duclos equal equivalence scales estimation ethical EXPEQ FGT indices Figure first-order food poverty line Formby Gini index gross income growth headcount horizontal inequity household impact Income and Wealth income distribution Income Inequality increase index of inequality individuals inequality aversion inequality dominance inequality indices instance Journal of Economic Lorenz curve mean income optimal Pareto principle percentile poor population poverty and equity poverty dominance poverty indices pro-poor proportion quantiles rank Ravallion redistributive costs reference relative deprivation reranking Review of Income S-Gini indices sampling units second-order Shapley value social welfare function statistical Statistical Inference stochastic dominance targeting total expenditures transfer variable weight welfare dominance welfarist well-being μο μχ
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Página 104 - By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortably though they had no linen. But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a creditable daylabourer would be ashamed to...
Página 105 - Individuals, families and groups in the population can be said to be in poverty when they lack the resources to obtain the types of diet, participate in the activities and have the living conditions and amenities which are customary, or are at least widely encouraged or approved, in the societies to which they belong.
Página 104 - Bank settles for a standard which is 'consumption-based' and which comprises two elements: the expenditure necessary to buy a minimum standard of nutrition and other basic necessities and a further amount that varies from country to country, reflecting the cost of participating in the everyday life of society.
Página 105 - There is an irreducible core of absolute deprivation in our idea of poverty which translates reports of starvation, malnutrition and visible hardship into a diagnosis of poverty without having to ascertain first the relative picture.
Página 104 - ... can well fall into without extreme bad conduct. Custom, in the same manner, has rendered leather shoes a necessary of life in England. The poorest creditable person of either sex would be ashamed to appear in public without them. In...
Página 104 - ... without extreme bad conduct. Custom, in the same manner, has rendered leather shoes a necessary of life in England. The poorest creditable person of either sex would be ashamed to appear in public without them. In Scotland, custom has rendered them a necessary of life to the lowest order of men; but not to the same order of women, who may, without any discredit, walk about baref<x1ted. In France they are necessaries neither to men nor to women, the lowest rank of both sexes appearing there publicly,...
Página 5 - living may be seen as consisting of a set of interrelated 'functionings', consisting of beings and doings. A person's achievement in this respect can be seen as the vector of her functionings. The relevant functionings can vary from such elementary things as being adequately nourished, being in good health, avoiding escapable morbidity, and premature mortality, etc. to more complex achievements, such as being happy, having selfrespect, taking part in the...
Página 59 - The magnitude of a relative deprivation is the extent of the difference between the desired situation and that of the person desiring it (as he sees it).
Página 104 - ... well fall into without extreme bad conduct. Custom, in .the same manner, has rendered leather shoes a necessary of life in England. The poorest creditable person of either sex would be ashamed to appear in public without them. In Scotland custom has rendered them a necessary of life to the lowest order of men ; but not to the same order of 1 Wealth of Nations, Bk.
Página 5 - The relevant functionings can vary from such elementary things as being adequately nourished, being in good health, avoiding escapable morbidity and premature mortality, etc., to more complex achievements such as being happy, having self-respect, taking part in the life of the community, and so on.
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