Pubbl/distr/stampa	Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia : , : World Bank Group, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (167 p.)
Disciplina	339.46096
Collana	Africa Poverty Report
Soggetto topico	Poverty - Africa Economic development - Africa
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4648-0724-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; 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 Trends 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 1.1 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? 2.3 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 O.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 I.1 Poverty reduction in Africa lags other regions
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910466323303321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Nairobi, : University of Nairobi Press, 2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (527 p.)
Altri autori (Persone)	FosuAugustin Kwasi MwabuGermano M ThorbeckeErik <1929->
Soggetto topico	Poverty - Africa
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	9966-792-00-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Part I. Introduction; 1. Poverty in Africa: An Overview; Context and scope; Organization of the book; Summary and overall findings; Part II. Identification and Measurement of Poverty; 2. Poverty Lines in Theory and Practice; Introduction; Poverty lines in theory; Objective poverty lines; Subjective poverty lines; Poverty lines found in practice; Conclusions; 3. The State of Rural Poverty, Income Distribution and Rural Development in SSA; Introduction The rural sector in SSA: A profile Factors influencing SSA rural sector development path; Conclusions and some policy implications; 4. Poverty, Inequality, and Economic Well-Being: African Economic Growth in Comparative Perspective; Introduction; Inequality; Poverty; Economic well-being; Conclusions; 5. Poverty Analysis within a General Equilibrium Framework; Introduction; Social accounting, income distribution and poverty; The overall conceptual framework; Classification and disaggregation of accounts; Data requirements in the construction of a SAM SAM multiplier analysis and application to an African archetype economy General equilibrium models, income distribution and poverty; Income distribution, poverty and poverty measurement; Model description; Simulation results; Simulation 2: Import tariff reform; Conclusions; Part III. Poverty and Economic Reform; 6. Adjustment, Income Distribution and Poverty in Africa: A Research Guide; The evolution of the debate; Methodological issues; The evidence on SAPs and poverty in Africa; Protecting the poor in SAPs; Summary and conclusion; 7. Gender, Poverty and Economic Reform in Africa Introduction Consumption: Are women poorer than men?; Production: The gender division of labour; Modelling the determinants of differences in consumption and production; Gender and Structural Adjustment; Gender-disaggregated statistics and research; Conclusion; 8. Fiscal Incidence in Africa: Microeconomic Evidence; Introduction; Methods; Results; Summary and Conclusions; Part IV. Labour Markets and Human Capital; 9. Labour Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa; Introduction; Labour data; Labour force growth; The structure of labour markets; The structure and determinants of wages; Migration Labour supply Determination of aggregate employment; Changes in labour market institutions and labour market policies; Concluding remarks; 10. Empirical Modelling of Investment in Health and Nutrition; Introduction; Modelling health (and other human capital) investments; Measurement of health; Conclusions; Endogenous programme placement and selective migration; Social experiments; Conclusions; 11. Stabilization Policies, Poverty and the Labour Market: Analytical Issues and Empirical Evidence; Introduction; Poverty: Some recent evidence; Transmission channels; Formal framework Dynamics of spending cuts
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457101903321

Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Nairobi, : University of Nairobi Press, 2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (527 p.)
Altri autori (Persone)	FosuAugustin Kwasi MwabuGermano M ThorbeckeErik <1929->
Soggetto topico	Poverty - Africa
ISBN	9966-792-00-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Part I. Introduction; 1. Poverty in Africa: An Overview; Context and scope; Organization of the book; Summary and overall findings; Part II. Identification and Measurement of Poverty; 2. Poverty Lines in Theory and Practice; Introduction; Poverty lines in theory; Objective poverty lines; Subjective poverty lines; Poverty lines found in practice; Conclusions; 3. The State of Rural Poverty, Income Distribution and Rural Development in SSA; Introduction The rural sector in SSA: A profile Factors influencing SSA rural sector development path; Conclusions and some policy implications; 4. Poverty, Inequality, and Economic Well-Being: African Economic Growth in Comparative Perspective; Introduction; Inequality; Poverty; Economic well-being; Conclusions; 5. Poverty Analysis within a General Equilibrium Framework; Introduction; Social accounting, income distribution and poverty; The overall conceptual framework; Classification and disaggregation of accounts; Data requirements in the construction of a SAM SAM multiplier analysis and application to an African archetype economy General equilibrium models, income distribution and poverty; Income distribution, poverty and poverty measurement; Model description; Simulation results; Simulation 2: Import tariff reform; Conclusions; Part III. Poverty and Economic Reform; 6. Adjustment, Income Distribution and Poverty in Africa: A Research Guide; The evolution of the debate; Methodological issues; The evidence on SAPs and poverty in Africa; Protecting the poor in SAPs; Summary and conclusion; 7. Gender, Poverty and Economic Reform in Africa Introduction Consumption: Are women poorer than men?; Production: The gender division of labour; Modelling the determinants of differences in consumption and production; Gender and Structural Adjustment; Gender-disaggregated statistics and research; Conclusion; 8. Fiscal Incidence in Africa: Microeconomic Evidence; Introduction; Methods; Results; Summary and Conclusions; Part IV. Labour Markets and Human Capital; 9. Labour Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa; Introduction; Labour data; Labour force growth; The structure of labour markets; The structure and determinants of wages; Migration Labour supply Determination of aggregate employment; Changes in labour market institutions and labour market policies; Concluding remarks; 10. Empirical Modelling of Investment in Health and Nutrition; Introduction; Modelling health (and other human capital) investments; Measurement of health; Conclusions; Endogenous programme placement and selective migration; Social experiments; Conclusions; 11. Stabilization Policies, Poverty and the Labour Market: Analytical Issues and Empirical Evidence; Introduction; Poverty: Some recent evidence; Transmission channels; Formal framework Dynamics of spending cuts
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910807028203321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Stuttgart : , : Ibidem-Verlag, , [2019]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (357 pages)
Disciplina	339.46096
Collana	CROP international poverty studies
Soggetto topico	Poverty - Africa
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	3-8382-7317-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910511644203321

Autore	Kouadio Jean-François
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Braamfontein, South Africa : , : Botsotso, , 2018
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (98 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	823.914
Soggetto topico	Poverty - Africa
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-990922-12-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910467356503321