Handbook on Poverty and Inequality

The handbook on poverty and inequality provides tools to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze poverty. It provides background materials for designing poverty reduction strategies. This book is intended for researchers and policy analysts involved in poverty research and policy making. T...

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Main Authors:	Haughton, Jonathan, Khandker, Shahidur R.
Language:	en_US
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
Subjects:	Absolute Poverty Absolute Poverty Line absolute terms Additive Poverty Measures Adult Equivalence Adult Equivalent Adult Equivalents agricultural production agricultural sector aid agencies Basic Needs Calorie Intake Calories per day cash income Changes in Poverty Cluster Sampling combat poverty community characteristics consumption expenditure consumption measure Correlation Coefficients corruption Cumulative Distribution Determinants of Poverty Developing Countries diet dimensions of poverty dissemination distributional effects domestic poverty drought Durable Goods economic growth Economic Indicators economic status employment income Equivalence Scales Estimates of Poverty Expenditure Function Farm Income farm prices farmers female-headed households fertility Food Consumption Food Consumption per Capita Food Expenditure food poverty Food Spending geographic targeting Goods Consumption government policies Headcount Index Health Care health workers HIPC household budget household budget survey household characteristics household composition household consumption Household Head household income Household Living Standards Household Size household survey Household Surveys household welfare housing housing conditions Impact Evaluation impact on poverty Incidence Analysis Income Income Distribution Income Inequality Income Poverty individual households individual welfare Inequality infant infant mortality infant mortality rates Insurance International Comparison International Poverty Comparisons labor force Learning legal status levels of education life expectancy Life Indicators limited resources living conditions malnutrition Measurement Error measurement of poverty Measuring Poverty Millennium Development Goals minority mountainous areas national level national poverty national poverty rate National Strategy Ngo number of adults number of households number of people nutritional status Old Age panel data sets Pensions per Capita Consumption per Capita Expenditure per Capita Expenditure Quintiles per capita income policy makers Political Economy Poor Poor Countries poor fishermen poor health poor households Poor people poorer areas poorer households poppy poppy cultivation population census population size Poverty Analysis Poverty Assessments Poverty Comparisons poverty data Poverty Deficit Curves Poverty Determinants Poverty Estimates Poverty Gap Poverty Gap Index Poverty Incidence Poverty Incidence Curve Poverty Incidence Curves Poverty Indexes Poverty Line Poverty Lines Poverty Mapping Poverty Measure Poverty measurement Poverty Measures Poverty Monitoring poverty poverty Poverty Profile Poverty Profiles Poverty Rate Poverty Rates Poverty Reduction poverty reduction strategies Poverty Reduction Strategy Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers Poverty Severity powerlessness programs progress prostitution public policy public services Public Spending Purchasing Power Purchasing Power Parity quality control Quality of Life Random Sample Reduction of Poverty Regression Analysis remittances remote areas Response Bias running water Rural rural area Rural Areas rural energy rural finance sample size savings Schooling self-confidence self-employment social sciences Socio-Economic Survey Socioeconomic Surveys Standard Errors Stochastic Dominance Survey Data Targeting television TV Urban Migration urban poverty Village Fund Vulnerability Vulnerability to Poverty Vulnerable Households welfare indicator welfare indicators welfare measure welfare measures welfare of individuals young child young children
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Handbook on Poverty and Inequality

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