Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

by N. Kakwani (Editor), J. Silber (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349281657
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2008
Edition description:	1st ed. 2008
Pages:	265
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword; N.Lustig Preface; N.Kakwani Introduction: Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement; N.Kakwani & J.Silber The Information Theory Approach; E.Maasoumi & M.A.Lugo The Fuzzy Approach to Multidimensional Poverty; G.Betti, B.Cheli, A.Lemmi & V.Verma The Rasch Model and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement; A.Fusco & P.Dickes Multidimensional Poverty: Factor and Cluster Analysis; G.F.Luzzi, Y.Flückiger & S.Weber Multidimensional Poverty and Multiple Correspondence Analysis; L-M.Asselin & V.T.Anh Permanent Income, Poverty Measurement and the MIMIC Model; R.H.Abul Naga & E.Bolzani Multidimensional Measures of Poverty and Well-Being based on Latent Variable Models; J.Krishnakumar The Subjective Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement; B.van Praag & A.Ferrer-i-Carbonell The Econometric Approach to Efficiency Analysis; X.Ramos Efficiency Analysis and the Lower Convex Hull; G.Anderson, I.Crawford & A.Leicester The Axiomatic Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement; S.R.Chakravarty & J.Silber Determining the Parameters of Axiomatically Derived Multidimensional Poverty Indices; C.E.Velez& M.Robles The Order of Acquisition of Durable Goods and the Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty; J.Deutsch & J.Silber Using an Ordinal Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Analysis; J-Y.Duclos, D.Sahn & S.D.Younger