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On the arbitrariness and robustness of multi-dimensional poverty rankings

Qizilbash, Mozaffar - 2004

It is often argued that multi-dimensional measures of well-being and poverty—such as those based on the capability approach and related views—are ad hoc. Rankings based on them are not, for this reason, robust to changes in the selection of weights used. In this paper, it is argued that the...

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Indicators of inequality and poverty

Subramanian, S. - 2004

This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … of income inequality, deals with preliminary concepts and definitions; a visual representation of inequality (the Lorenz … curve); real-valued indices of inequality; properties of inequality indices; some specific inequality measures; and the …

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Social and political indicators of human well-being

Harkness, Susan - 2004

A plethora of what are loosely described as social and political indicators of well-being exist. Both the range and country coverage of these indicators has increased appreciably in recent years. In this paper we ask what contribution these indicators can make towards our understanding of human...

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Measuring the quality of life across countries: A sensitivity analysis of well-being indices

Rahman, Tauhidur; Mittelhammer, Ron C.; Wandscheider, Philip - 2005

This paper attempts to provide a comprehensive analysis of interrelationships among the determinants of the quality of life (QOL). We show that various measures of well-being are highly sensitive to domains of QOL that are considered in the construction of comparative indices, and how measurable...

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Tomorrow's hunger: A framework for analysing vulnerability to food security

Lovendal, Christian Romer; Knowles, Marco - 2006

Whilst traditional food security analysis offers an ex post view on who the food insecure are and why they are so, looking at food insecurity from a vulnerability perspective provides a dynamic and forward looking way of analysing causes and more importantly options for reducing food insecurity....

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Economic well-being and non-economic well-being: A poverty of the meaning and measurement of poverty

Sumner, Andrew - 2004

This paper discusses the measurement of poverty and well-being. A historical overview is given of the last fifty years. This is followed by discussion of three groupings of indicators: those measures based primarily on economic well-being; those based on non-economic well-being and composite...

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Globalization, poverty, inequality, and insecurity: Some insights from the economics of happiness

Graham, Carol - 2005

standard measures of poverty and inequality and reported assessments of welfare in countries in the process of integrating into …

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Measuring food security using respondents' perception of food consumption adequacy

Migotto, Mauro; Davis, Benjamin; Caretto, Gero; Beegle, … - 2006

Food security is a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon. As such, its measurement may entail and benefit from the combination of both ‘qualitative-subjective’ and ‘quantitative-objective’ indicators. Yet, the evidence on the external validity of subjectivetype information is scarce,...

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Childhood mortality and economic growth

Bhalotra, Sonia - 2006

This paper investigates the extent to which the decline in child mortality over the last three decades can be attributed to economic growth. In doing this, it exploits the considerable variation in growth over this period, across states and over time. The analysis is able to condition upon a...

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Well-being and the complexity of poverty: A subjective well-being approach

Rojas, Mariano - 2004

This investigation studies human well-being from a subjective well-being approach. On the basis of a Mexican database the investigation shows that there is a weak relationship between subjective well-being and indicators of well-being such as income and consumption. Therefore, subjective...

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