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Research Handbook on Poverty and Inequality

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Covering global, comparative, and single-country contexts, this Research Handbook presents wide-ranging, cutting-edge research on poverty and inequality. It maps out international trends in poverty and inequality and explores the key conceptual and operational frameworks, practical analyses, and policy applications and outcomes.Udaya R. Wagle brings together 27 substantive chapters with research and analyses from a diverse body of established authorities and researchers to create a forum and examine the complex and often under-explored issues related to poverty and inequality. Using empirical data and insights from the Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, the individual chapters examine and explain how economic and social policies and programs have affected poverty and inequality. While unprecedented economic progress in the past few decades has improved standards of living across the globe, the Handbook concludes that creating a just and fair society requires policies that go beyond expanding economic opportunities.Providing a comprehensive coverage of the research and analysis into poverty and inequality, this incisive Handbook will be an invaluable reference text for students and scholars of economics, sociology, social policy, and comparative and development studies. The practical insights into policies and programs covered here will also benefit policymakers and practitioners interested in reducing poverty and inequality globally.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-05-23
Mått169 x 244 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieElgar Handbooks on Inequality
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781800882294

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Contents:Preface xiv1 Introduction to poverty and inequality 1Udaya R. WaglePART I CONCEPTUAL AND OPERATIONAL FRAMEWORKS2 Poverty measurement: Evolving concepts and measurement frameworks 15Udaya R. Wagle3 Absolute and relative income poverty measurement: a survey 36Benoit Decerf4 Cumulative deprivation: identification and aggregation 52Koen Decancq5 Concepts and measurements of economic inequality 68Udaya R. Wagle6 Feminist approaches to poverty and gender inequality 88Randy AlbeldaPART II MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS7 Are women poorer? A cross-country analysis of gender differentials in multidimensional poverty 103Francesco Burchi and Daniele Malerba8 Trends in multidimensional poverty in Latin America 118María Emma Santos9 Examination of the effects of variation in the measurement of multidimensional poverty in the United States 138Roger White and Lindley Lee-Niegas10 Multidimensional poverty in Hong Kong: measurements and implications 172Siu Ming Chan11 Poverty, social mobility, and the middle class: evidence from South Africa 186Simone Schotte12 Multidimensional poverty in India: a regional level analysis in the context of Sustainable Development Goals 205Pinaki Das, Bibek Paria, and Shama Firdaush13 Consistent, dense measures of inequality using grouped data: a global approach 224James Galbraith and Jaehee Choi14 The possible impact of changes in demography on economic inequality in Europe 245M. Azhar Hussain and Bent Greve15 Workers’ social capital and employment outcomes: the case of MENA countries 261Jieun Lee and Vladimir Hlasny16 Determinants of intimate partner violence in Nepal 282Alice Louise Kassens17 The dynamics of poverty and inequality in Chile and Honduras over the past three decades 305Carlos VillalobosPART III POLICY APPLICATIONS AND OUTCOMES18 Social protection, poverty, and inequality: global patterns and changes 323Udaya R. Wagle19 Social assistance in low- and middle-income countries 350Armando Barrientos20 Poverty and inequality in European welfare states 367Bent Greve21 Poverty in Mexico: trends, determinants, and policies 378Jorge Garza-Rodriguez22 Is growth pro-poor or pro-rich? The role of national pro-poor targeted programmes in Vietnam 392Phuc Van Phan and Martin O’Brien23 Practices of microfinance and poverty reduction in Bangladesh 408Mohammad Shahjahan Chowdhury24 Income and energy usage in developing economies: using the case of Ghana 422Kenneth Ofori-Boateng, Williams Ohemeng, Innocent Tetteh, and Elvis Kwame Agyapong 25 International migration for poverty alleviation? The neoliberal element in the debates on migration for development and poverty alleviation 439Meltem Yılmaz Şener26 Measuring the extra cost of disability: approaches, challenges, and prospects 453Vickie L. Edwards27 Concluding observations 467Udaya R. WagleIndex 471