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Titolo: |
Quantitative approaches to multidimensional poverty measurement / / edited by Nanak Kakwani and Jacques Silber
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Pubblicazione: | Basingstoke [England] ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2008. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (290 p.) |
Disciplina: | 339.4/6072 |
Soggetto topico: | Income distribution - Mathematical models |
Poverty - Mathematical models | |
Altri autori: |
KakwaniNanak
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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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Quantitative approaches to multidimensional poverty measurement ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-281-91444-4 |
9786611914448 | |
0-230-58235-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910813446103321 |
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