Poverty and Equity: Measurement, Policy and Estimation with DAD

✍ Scribed by Jean-Yves Duclos, Abdelkrim Araar (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 398
• Series: Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being 2
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This text addresses the understanding and alleviation of poverty, inequality, and inequity using a unique and broad mix of concepts, measurement methods, statistical tools, software, and practical exercises. Part I discusses basic fundamental issues of well-being and poverty measurement. Part II develops an integrated framework for measuring poverty, social welfare, inequality, vertical equity, horizontal equity, and redistribution. Part III presents and develops recent methods for testing the robustness of distributive rankings. Part IV discusses ways of using policy to alleviate poverty, improve welfare, increase equity, and assess the impact of growth. Part V applies the tools to real data.

Most of the book’s measurement and statistical tools have been programmed in DAD, a well established and widely available free software program that has been tailored especially for income distribution analysis and is used by scholars, researchers, and analysts in nearly 100 countries worldwide. It requires basic understanding of calculus and statistics.

Abdelkrim Araar and Jean-Yves Duclos teach economics at Université Laval in Québec City.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Well-Being and Poverty....Pages 3-18
The Empirical Measurement of Well-Being....Pages 19-35
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Introduction and Notation....Pages 39-47
Measuring Inequality and Social Welfare....Pages 49-80
Measuring Poverty....Pages 81-102
Estimating Poverty Lines....Pages 103-125
Measuring Progressivity and Vertical Equity....Pages 127-140
Horizontal Equity, Reranking and Redistribution....Pages 141-152
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Distributive Dominance....Pages 155-163
Poverty Dominance....Pages 165-180
Welfare and Inequality Dominance....Pages 181-196
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Poverty Alleviation: Policy and Growth....Pages 199-223
Targeting in the Presence of Redistributive Costs....Pages 225-237
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
An Introduction to DAD : A Software for Distributive Analysis....Pages 241-257
Non-Parametric Estimation in DAD ....Pages 259-269
Estimation and Statistical Inference....Pages 271-287
Statistical Inference in Practice....Pages 289-299
Front Matter....Pages 301-301
Exercises....Pages 303-328

✦ Subjects

Population Economics; Economic Policy; Economic Theory