LEADER 04828oam 22006855 450 001 9910811655203321 005 20240430233342.0 010 $a1-4648-0724-8 024 7 $a10.1596/978-1-4648-0723-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000621577 035 $a(EBL)4451928 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001636029 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16388428 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001636029 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14918107 035 $a(PQKB)11502536 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4451928 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11187653 035 $a(OCoLC)945663013 035 $a(The World Bank)18987031 035 $a(US-djbf)18987031 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4451928 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000621577 100 $a20160223d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aPoverty in a rising Africa /$f[Kathleen Beegle, Luc Christiaensen, Andrew Dabalen, Isis Gaddis] 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWashington DC :$cWorld Bank,$d[2016] 215 $a1 online resource (pages cm) 225 0 $aAfrica Poverty Report 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4648-0723-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. 327 $aCover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Authors and Contributors; Abbreviations; Key Messages; Overview; Assessing the Data Landscape; Improving Data on Poverty; Revisiting Poverty Trends; Profiling the Poor; Taking a Nonmonetary Perspective; Measuring Inequality; Notes; References; Introduction; References; 1. The State of Data for Measuring Poverty; Types of Data for Measuring Monetary Poverty; The Political Economy of Data Production; Reappraising the Information Base on Poverty; Concluding Remarks and Recommendations; Notes; References; 2. Revisiting Poverty Trends 327 $aTrends Using Comparable and Better-Quality DataRobustness to Reliance on GDP Imputation; Profiling the Poor; The Movement of People into and out of Poverty; Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; 3. Poverty from a Nonmonetary Perspective; The Capability Approach; Levels of and Trends in Well-Being; Multiple Deprivation; Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; 4. Inequality in Africa; Perceptions of Inequality; Measurement of Inequality; Inequality Patterns and Trends; Unequal Opportunities; Extreme Wealth and Billionaires; Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; Boxes 327 $a1.1 Sources outside the national statistical system provide valuable information on well-being1.2 How did poverty change in Guinea and Mali? Lack of comparable data makes it difficult to know; 1.3 Many kinds of data in Africa are unreliable; 1.4 Can donors improve the capacity of national statistics offices? Lessons learned from MECOVI; 1.5 What is the threshold for being poor?; 2.1 Adjusting the data for Nigeria has a huge effect on estimates of poverty reduction; 2.2 How do spikes in food prices affect the measurement of poverty? 327 $a2.3 Can wealth indexes be used to measure changes in poverty?3.1 How useful are subjective data in monitoring poverty?; 3.2 Tracking adult literacy with data remains challenging; 3.3 What happens to Africans who flee their homes?; 3.4 Demographic and Health Surveys make it possible to measure multidimensional poverty; 3.5 What is the multidimensional poverty index (MPI)?; 4.1 A primer on the Gini index; 4.2 Can the Gini index be estimated without a survey?; 4.3 Are resources within households shared equally? Evidence from Senegal; Figures 327 $aO.1 Good governance and statistical capacity go togetherO.2 Adjusting for comparability and quality changes the level of and trends in poverty; O.3 Other estimates also suggest that poverty in Africa declined slightly faster and is slightly lower; O.4 Fragility is associated with significantly slower poverty reduction; O.5 Acceptance of domestic violence is twice as high in Africa as in other developing regions; O.6 Residents in resource-rich countries suffer a penalty in their human development; O.7 Declining inequality is often associated with declining poverty 327 $aI.1 Poverty reduction in Africa lags other regions 410 0$aWorld Bank e-Library. 606 $aPoverty$zAfrica 606 $aEconomic development$zAfrica 607 $aAfrica$xEconomic conditions 615 0$aPoverty 615 0$aEconomic development 676 $a339.4/6096 700 $aBeegle$b Kathleen$f1969-$01614153 702 $aBeegle$b Kathleen$f1969- 702 $aDiop$b Makhtar 712 02$aWorld Bank, 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811655203321 996 $aPoverty in a rising Africa$93943834 997 $aUNINA