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Measuring poverty and wellbeing in developing countries

Tarp, Finn - Personal Name; Arndt, Channing - Personal Name; World Institute for Development Economics Research - Conference;

Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for more than three decades. The large majority of developing countries now regularly conduct a variety of household surveys, and their information base with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes with respect to poverty reduction are high; (ii) the determinants of living standards are often volatile; and (iii) related information bases, while much improved, are often characterized by significant non-sample error. It also remains, to a surprisingly high degree, an activity undertaken by technical assistance personnel and consultants based in developed countries. This book seeks to enhance the transparency, replicability, and comparability of existing practice. It also aims to significantly lower the barriers to entry to the conduct of rigorous poverty measurement and increase the participation of analysts from developing countries in their own poverty assessments. The book focuses on two domains: the measurement of absolute consumption poverty and a first-order dominance approach to multidimensional welfare analysis. In each domain, it provides a series of computer codes designed to facilitate analysis by allowing the analyst to start from a flexible and known base. The volume covers the theoretical grounding for the code streams provided, a chapter on ‘estimation in practice’, a series of eleven case studies where the code streams are operationalized, a synthesis, an extension to inequality, and a look forward.

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Series Title: UNU-WIDER studies in development economics
Call Number: 362.5091724 MEA m
Publisher: Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press., 2016
Collation: xxiv, 347 pages : ill, maps ; 24 cm.
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9780198744801
Classification: 362
Content Type: text
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Edition: First edition.
Subject(s): Poverty
Developing countries
Well-being
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