UID:
kobvindex_HPB1125816622
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
3631753632
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9783631753637
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9783631576595
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3631576595
Series Statement:
Goettinger Studien Zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics Series ; v.24
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Cover -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Introduction and Overview -- 1 The Semi-Elasticity of Poverty Reduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Influence of Income and Distribution Changes -- 1.3 Growth Elasticity versus Semi-Elasticity -- 1.4 Empirical Results -- 1.5 Conclusion -- 2 Undernutrition and the Nutrition Transition -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Data -- 2.3 The new WHO Child Growth Standard -- 2.4 The Nutrition Transition -- 2.5 Results -- 2.5.1 The theoretical composition of the underweight indicator -- 2.5.2 The empirical composition of the underweight indicator
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2.5.3 The Composition of Undernutrition across countries -- 2.5.4 Composition of Undernutrition across subgroups -- 2.5.5 Changes in Undernutrition over Time -- 2.6 Conclusion -- 3 A Regional Puzzle of Child Mortality and Undernutrition -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 Child Mortality and Undernutrition -- 3.1.2 The South Asia -- Sub-Saharan Africa Enigma -- 3.2 Methodology -- 3.2.1 Multilevel Analysis -- 3.2.2 The Basic Multilevel Model -- 3.2.3 Model Specification -- 3.3 Empirical Analysis -- 3.3.1 Data Description -- 3.3.2 Descriptive Statistics -- 3.3.3 Regression Results -- 3.3.4 Simulations
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3.4 Conclusion -- 4 A Human Development Index by Income Groups -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Methodology -- 4.2.1 General idea and overview -- 4.2.2 Imputing income for DHS households -- 4.2.3 Calculating the life expectancy index by income quintiles -- 4.2.4 Calculating the education index by income quintiles -- 4.2.5 Calculating the GDP index by income quintiles -- 4.2.6 Calculating the overall HDI and the HDI by income quintiles -- 4.2.7 Calculating the HDI by income quintiles for OECD countries -- 4.3 Illustrating sample of countries -- 4.4 Results -- 4.5 Limits of the approach -- 4.6 Conclusion
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Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Bibliography
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Books at JSTOR: Open Access, JSTOR
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OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks), OAPEN
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3631576595
Language:
English
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