Poverty and equity : measurement, policy, and estimation with DAD
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2006
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IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA
Abstract
The book is a current (2006) survey of the methods used to analyze poverty and equity. Part I covers conceptual, methodological and empirical issues that arise in assessments of well-being and poverty. Part II presents a number of measures on poverty, inequality, social welfare, and vertical and horizontal equity. Part III considers some methods to determine what policy type dominates another in terms of generally-defined ethical criteria. Part IV develops impacts of targeting, price changes, growth and fiscal policy. Part V introduces statistical techniques related to depiction of distribution of living standards and introduces DAD software applications.
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SOCIAL EQUITY, POLICY MAKING, SOCIAL WELFARE, POVERTY ALLEVIATION, STATISTICAL ANALYSIS, WELL-BEING, ABSOLUTE POVERTY, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, DATABASES, SOFTWARE, ECONOMETRICS, BASIC NEEDS, GLOBAL, POVERTY MEASUREMENT, WELFARE, PRO-POOR