Poverty and Well-Being in East Africa A Multi-faceted Economic Approach /

This volume is a collection of selected studies on poverty and well-being in East Africa. Using a multidimensional approach, the authors hope to provide a broad view of poverty and a thorough account of the variables that contribute to it. As opposed to traditional studies of poverty, which focus ma...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Heshmati, Almas (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Σειρά:Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being,
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Child poverty and household poverty in Cameroon: A multidimensional approach
  • Chapter 3: The impact of child malnutrition and health on cognitive skill in Ethiopia: using standard panel data analysis
  • Chapter 4: Assessing MDG achievement through under-5 child stunting in East African Community
  • Chapter 5: Dynamics and determinants of poverty in Nigeria: Evidence from panel survey
  • Chapter 6: The Impact of international remittances on expenditure patterns of urban households in Ethiopia
  • Chapter 7: Determinants of consumption expenditures and poverty dynamics in urban Ethiopia: Evidence from panel data
  • Chapter 8: Impact of the 2002’s VAT rate reform on household welfare in Rwanda
  • Chapter 9: On the measurement of multidimensional well-being in some East African countries
  • Chapter 10: Multidimensional measures of poverty in Ethiopia: Principal component and stochastic dominancy analysis
  • Chapter 11: Biofuel, Poverty, Food Security and Growth in Ethiopia: A Computable General Equilibrium Microsimulation Analysis
  • Chapter 12: Does Energy Resources Spending mitigate adverse effects of CO2 Emissions from Oil exploration in Africa?.