Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 023000489X ISBN 13: 9780230004894

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Synopsis

This book is written in light of the latest developments in the field of multidimensional poverty measurement. It includes clear presentations of more than a dozen different quantitative techniques and provides empirical illustrations based on data sources from developed or developing countries.

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RAMSES ABUL NAGA University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland GORDON ANDERSON University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada LOUIS-MARIE ASSELIN Institut de Mathématique C.F. Gauss and CIRPÉE Centre, Laval, Canada ENRICO BOLZANI Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Bern, Switzerland GIANNI BETTI University of Siena, Siena, Italy BRUNO CHELI University of Pisa, Siena, Italy SATYA R. CHAKRAVARTY Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India IAN CRAWFORD University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK; Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, UK JOSEPH DEUTSCH Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel PAUL DICKES University of Nancy II, Nancy, France JEAN-YVES DUCLOS Department of Economics, Université Laval, Ste-Foy, Canada ADA FERRER-I-CARBONELL University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands GIOVANNI FERRO LUZZI University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland YVES FLÜCKIGER University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland ALESSIO FUSCO CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg JAYA KRISHNAKUMAR University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland ANDREW LEICESTER Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, UK ACHILLE LEMMI University of Siena, Siena, Italy ANA LUGO MARIA University of Oxford, Oxford, UK ESFANDIAR MAASOUMI Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA BERNARD VAN PRAAG University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands XAVI RAMOS Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain MARCO ROBLES Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, USA DAVID SAHN Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA CARLOS EDUARDO VÉLEZ Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, USA VIJAY VERMA University of Siena, Siena, Italy VU TUAN ANH Vietnam Institute of Economics, Vietnam SYLVAIN WEBER Geneva School of Business Administration (HEG), Geneva, Switzerland; University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland (HES SO), Switzerland STEPHEN D YOUNGER, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 023000489X
• ISBN 13: 9780230004894
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 289
• Editor: Kakwani N., Silber J.