UID:
almafu_9958075227902883
Format:
1 online resource (pages cm)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8213-9864-4
Series Statement:
Streamlined analysis with adept software
Content:
A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality: Theory and Practice is an introduction to the theory and practice of measuring poverty and inequality, as well as a user's guide for analyzing income or consumption distribution for any standard household dataset using the World Bank's ADePT software. The approach taken here considers income standards as building blocks for basic measurement, then uses them to construct inequality and poverty measures. This unified approach provides advantages in interpreting and contrasting the measures and in understanding the way measures vary over time
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction -- Income standards, inequality, and poverty -- How to interpret adept results -- Frontiers of poverty measurement -- References -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8213-8461-9
Language:
English
