UID:
edocfu_9958982574502883
Format:
1 online resource (155)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
3-631-75363-2
Series Statement:
Goettinger Studien zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics.
Content:
Although the world has seen a strong increase in global incomes in the last two decades and consequently a decline in global poverty rates, the number of persons living in absolute poverty remains on unacceptably high levels. Besides rising incomes can not distract from the fact that resources to fight global problems remain scarce. These resources have to be devoted to the fight against different global problems like the fight against communicable and non-communicable diseases (especially HIV/AIDS and Malaria) or the fight against global warming. The main precondition to achieve the best results with these limited resources is a good knowledge about the determinants and the best policies to fight each problem. But before being able to analyze the determinants of the different global problems and especially of poverty, it is of fundamental importance to find the right indicators for each phenomenon. This book contributes to the discussion of appropriate poverty indicators for the different dimensions of poverty like income poverty, undernutrition and child mortality and proposes a multidimensional poverty indicator that takes the income distribution into consideration.
Note:
Thesis (doctoral)--Göttingen Universität, 2007.
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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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Bibliography.
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English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-631-57659-5
Language:
English
