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Poverty and equity : measurement, policy and estimation with DAD / Jean-Yves Duclos, Abdelkrim Araar.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Economic studies in inequality, social exclusion and well-being ; 2 | Economic studies in inequality, social exclusion and well-being ; 2.Publication details: New York : Springer, 2006.Description: xxi, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780387258935
  • 0387258930
  • 9780387333175
  • 0387333177
  • 9780387333182
  • 0387333185
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Poverty and equity.DDC classification:
  • 339.4/6 22
LOC classification:
  • HC79.P6 D83 2006
Other classification:
  • 83.46
  • cci1icc
  • QX 040
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. I. Conceptual and methodological issues -- 1. Well-being and poverty -- 2. The empirical measurement of well-being -- pt. II. Measuring poverty and equity -- 3. Introduction and notation -- 4. Measuring inequality and social welfare -- 5. Measuring poverty -- 6. Estimating poverty lines -- 7. Measuring progressivity and vertical equity -- 8. Horizontal equity, reranking and redistribution -- pt. III. Ordinal comparisons -- 9. Distributive dominance -- 10. Poverty dominance -- 11. Welfare and inequality dominance -- pt. IV. Policy and growth -- 12. Poverty alleviation : policy and growth -- 13. Targeting in the presence of redistributive costs -- pt. V. Estimation and inference -- 14. An introduction to DAD : a software for distributive analysis -- 15. Non-parametric estimation in DAD -- 16. Estimation and statistical inference -- 17. Statistical inference in practice -- pt. VI. Exercises -- 18. Exercises.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-375) and indexes.

pt. I. Conceptual and methodological issues -- 1. Well-being and poverty -- 2. The empirical measurement of well-being -- pt. II. Measuring poverty and equity -- 3. Introduction and notation -- 4. Measuring inequality and social welfare -- 5. Measuring poverty -- 6. Estimating poverty lines -- 7. Measuring progressivity and vertical equity -- 8. Horizontal equity, reranking and redistribution -- pt. III. Ordinal comparisons -- 9. Distributive dominance -- 10. Poverty dominance -- 11. Welfare and inequality dominance -- pt. IV. Policy and growth -- 12. Poverty alleviation : policy and growth -- 13. Targeting in the presence of redistributive costs -- pt. V. Estimation and inference -- 14. An introduction to DAD : a software for distributive analysis -- 15. Non-parametric estimation in DAD -- 16. Estimation and statistical inference -- 17. Statistical inference in practice -- pt. VI. Exercises -- 18. Exercises.

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