Quantitative approaches to multidimensional poverty measurement / / edited by Nanak Kakwani and Jacques Silber

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782581803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basingstoke ; ; New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2008
• ISBN: 1-281-91444-4; 9786611914448; 0-230-58235-4
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2008.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Disciplina: 339.4/6072; 339.46
• Soggetti: Income distribution - Mathematical models; Poverty - Mathematical models; Development economics; Welfare economics; Econometrics; Poverty; Development Economics; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy; Development Aid
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Papers originally presented at an international conference in Brasilia on August 29-31, 2005.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.