Poverty, Inequality and Development Essays in Honor of Erik Thorbecke /

Traditionally, there have been two strands in the analysis of poverty, inequality and development – a micro strand that focuses on individual behavior, welfare economics and the measurement of inequality and poverty; and a macro strand that analyzes economy-wide policies and the role of institutions...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Janvry, Alain de (Editor), Kanbur, Ravi (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
Series:Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being ; 1
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Poverty, Inequality and Development: Micro-Macro Perspectives and Linkages
  • Erik Thorbecke: Growth and Roots
  • On the Consistency of Poverty Lines
  • Poverty Indices
  • Should Poverty and Inequality Measures be Combined?
  • Equality of What? Evidence from India
  • Household Investments in Education and Income Inequality at the Community Level: Evidence from Indonesia
  • Poverty Traps and Safety Nets
  • Progress in the Modeling of Rural Households’ Behavior under Market Failures
  • Labor Laws and Labor Welfare in the Context of the Indian Experience
  • Macro Models and Multipliers: Leontief, Stone, Keynes, and CGE Models
  • Multiplier Effects and the Reduction of Poverty
  • Developing an Accounting Matrix for the Euro Area: Issues and Applications
  • Globalization, Economic Reform, and Structural Price Transmission: Sam Decomposition Techniques with an Empirical Application to Vietnam
  • Institutions, Factor Endowment and Inequality in Ghana, Kenya and Senegal
  • Incentives, Inequality and the Allocation of Aid When Conditionality Doesn’t Work: An Optimal Nonlinear Taxation Approach
  • Agricultural Research and Policy to Achieve Nutrition Goals
  • Is Dualism Worth Revisiting?.