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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452687003321

Titolo

Poverty and social exclusion : new methods of analysis / / edited by Gianni Betti and Achille Lemmi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-19629-3

0-203-08517-5

1-136-19630-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in social economics ; ; 19

Altri autori (Persone)

BettiGianni

LemmiAchille

Disciplina

305.5/69

Soggetti

Poverty - Measurement

Poverty - Social aspects

Marginality, Social

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Multidimensional poverty -- pt. 2. Longitudinal and chronic poverty -- pt. 3. Small area estimation methods.

Sommario/riassunto

Poverty and inequality remain at the top of the global economic agenda, and the methodology of measuring poverty continues to be a key area of research. This new book, from a leading international group of scholars, offers an up to date and innovative survey of new methods for estimating poverty at the local level, as well as the most recent multidimensional methods of the dynamics of poverty.It is argued here that measures of poverty and inequality are most useful to policy-makers and researchers when they are finely disaggregated into small geographic units. Poverty and Social Exclusion: New