The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement and Policy

By:

Ravallion, Martin

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Oxford University Press 2016Description: 701pISBN:

9780199474950

Subject(s):

Equality - Social Policy | Poverty

DDC classification:

339.46 RAV

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Item type	Current library	Item location	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	NIMA Knowledge Centre	9th Floor Reading Zone	General	339.46 RAV (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		M0042995

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Part I. History of Thought.
1. Origins of the idea of a world free of poverty;
2. New thinking on poverty after 1950
Part II. Measures and Methods.
3. Measuring welfare
4. Poverty lines
5. Poverty and inequality measures
6. Impact evaluation
Part III. Poverty and Policy.
7. Dimensions of poverty and inequality
8. Growth, inequality and poverty
9. Economy-wide and sectoral policies
10. Targeted interventions
11. Conclusions: Past progress and future challenges.

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