Poverty and inequality persist in many dimensions in the developing world. In order to understand the determinants of poverty and its distribution between and within countries, it is necessary to know its dimensions and the channels through which poverty and inequality affect human well-being....

The empirical analysis of poverty over time is still severely constrained by the available survey data in developing countries. In the past, this has led to a neglect of certain aspects of poverty dynamics or even biased assessments of poverty dynamics. This book explicitly takes into account...

Auf Basis mehrerer Haushaltsbefragungen und einer Vielzahl statistischer Informationen wird der Zusammenhang zwischen politischer Zielsetzung, ökonomischer Entwicklung und ethnischer Vielfalt analysiert und aus verschiedenen Perspektiven durchleuchtet. Neben allgemeinen Fragestellungen zu...

Since the Second World War the world has seen an economic growth spurt unprecedented in history. Economic growth is a necessary but not sufficient condition for improving human development, or in other words, economic growth is an important pre-requisite for the ultimate goal of human...