Poverty and Equity Measurement, Policy and Estimation with DAD /

• Main Authors: Duclos, Jean-Yves (Author), Araar, Abdelkrim (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being ; 2
• Subjects: Economic theory.; Economic policy.; Population.; Economics.; Population Economics.; Economic Policy.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

This text addresses the understanding and alleviation of poverty, inequality, and inequity using a unique and broad mix of concepts, measurement methods, statistical tools, software, and practical exercises. Part I discusses basic fundamental issues of well-being and poverty measurement. Part II dev...

Table of Contents:

• Conceptual and Methodological Issues
• Well-Being and Poverty
• The Empirical Measurement of Well-Being
• Measuring Poverty and Equity
• and Notation
• Measuring Inequality and Social Welfare
• Measuring Poverty
• Estimating Poverty Lines
• Measuring Progressivity and Vertical Equity
• Horizontal Equity, Reranking and Redistribution
• Ordinal Comparisons of Poverty and Equity
• Distributive Dominance
• Poverty Dominance
• Welfare and Inequality Dominance
• Poverty and Equity: Policy and Growth
• Poverty Alleviation: Policy and Growth
• Targeting in the Presence of Redistributive Costs
• Estimation and Inference for Distributive Analysis
• An Introduction to DAD: A Software for Distributive Analysis
• Non-Parametric Estimation in DAD
• Estimation and Statistical Inference
• Statistical Inference in Practice
• Exercises
• Exercises.