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Multidimensional Indices of Achievements and Poverty: What Do We Gain and What and What Do We Lose?
Lustig, Nora - eSocialSciences - 2011
Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income …. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a … single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is aggregating dimensions of poverty and well-being useful? Is it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319343
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Economic Well-being and Non-economic Well-being: A Review of the Meaning and Measurement of Poverty
Sumner, Andrew - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper discusses the measurement of poverty and well-being. A historical overview is given of the last fifty years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008751876
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The Impact of Parental Death on Child Well-being: Evidence from the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Gas, Ava Gail; Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Suriastini, Wayan; … - eSocialSciences - 2013
Identifying the impact of parental death on the well-being of children is complicated because parental death is likely to be correlated with other, unobserved, factors that affect child well-being. Population-representative longitudinal data collected in Aceh, Indonesia, before and after the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945343
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Personal Well-Being During Growth
Edmonds, Eric - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper considers the relative importance of improvements in economic status in explaining improvements in non-monetary measures of well-being during Vietnam's economic boom in the 1990s.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528187
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Assessing Well-being Using Hierarchical Needs
Clarke, Matthew - eSocialSciences - 2010
Determining whether well-being has improved is an important multidisciplinary task. It is important therefore to develop a multidimensional measure of well-being that reflects a wide spectrum of human needs. A new approach is presented in this paper based on multidimensional hierarchical human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008462823
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The Debate on the Poverty Estimates of 1999–2000
Datta, K.L. - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper compares the latest estimates of poverty (1999–2000) made by the Planning Commission with earlier … (2003) in this regard. The paper traces the comparable poverty estimates for the 1980s and 1990s in their levels and change … and uses the extent of poverty reduction implicit in these estimates to assess the magnitude of poverty reduction in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511373
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VIllage Economics and the Structure of Extended Family Networks
Angelucci, Manuela; Giorgi, Giacomo de; Rangel, Marcos A; … - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512432
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Globalisation Produces Good Outcomes, Enhance Them: Prof Bhagwati
Bhagwati, Jagdish - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper talks of good outcomes of Globalisation which needs to be further inproved wherein Institutional response mechanisms should be designed to address any problems that may arise in specific areas, complimentary policies should be used to enhance the good effects and more caution and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512456
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Migration and Urban Poverty in India Some Preliminary Observations
Mishra, Udaya S.; Joe, William; Samaiyar, Priyajit - eSocialSciences - 2009
individuals from migration, in terms of poverty outcomes are analysed. The analysis is based on the 55th round survey data on …-economic profiling of the migrant households in urban India and explore the dynamics of poverty among interstate as well as intrastate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512465
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Poverty Dynamics in Rural Sindh, Pakistan
Lohano, Hari Ram - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for rural Sindh, Pakistan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512466