Measuring Multidimensional Poverty and Deprivation Incidence and Determinants in Developed Countries /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: White, Roger (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Global Perspectives on Wealth and Distribution
• Subjects: Labor economics.; Population.; Economics.; Population Economics.; Labor Economics.; Development Aid.

This edited collection provides a comprehensive examination of multidimensional poverty for a wide variety of economies and societies, with a general focus on multidimensional poverty in developed countries, where poverty is often overlooked. Arguing that income- and consumption-based poverty measur...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Multidimensional Poverty and Deprivation: An Introduction
• 2. The Politics of Poverty Measurement and Social Policies: Global Observations
• 3. Efficiency and Distributive Justice in Multidimensional Poverty Issues
• 4. An Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty: Evidence from Italy
• 5. Economic Vulnerability in Spain: Before, During, and “After” Crisis
• 6. Material Deprivation, Health and Well-being in Older Age: A Comparative Analysis of 14 European Countries
• 7. Immigrant-Native Differences in Multidimensional Poverty After the Great Recession: A Comparison of Five European Countries
• 8. Multidimensional Poverty Among the Native- and Foreign-born in the United States: Evidence from the 2010-2014 American Community Surveys
• 9. U.S. Multidimensional Poverty by Race, Ethnicity and Motherhood: Evidence from Pennsylvania Census Data
• 10. Assessing Multidimensional Deprivation Among the Elderly in the United States. .