Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 December 2016
- ISBN 9780198744818
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 232x173x19 mm
- Weight 550 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 23 Figures, 104 Tables, 3 Boxes 0
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Short description:
This graduate text provides a review of the major approaches employed for estimating poverty lines and how poverty is estimated in practice.
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for more than three decades. The large majority of developing countries now regularly conduct a variety of household surveys, and the information base in developing countries with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes with respect to poverty reduction are high; (ii) the determinants of living standards are often volatile; and (iii) related information bases, while much improved, are often characterized by significant non-sample error.
It also remains, to a surprisingly high degree, an activity undertaken by technical assistance personnel and consultants based in developed countries. This book seeks to enhance the transparency, replicability, and comparability of existing practice. In so doing, it also aims to significantly lower the barriers to entry to the conduct of rigorous poverty measurement and increase the participation of analysts from developing countries in their own poverty assessments.
The book focuses on two domains: the measurement of absolute consumption poverty and a first order dominance approach to multidimensional welfare analysis. In each domain, it provides a series of flexible computer codes designed to facilitate analysis by allowing the analyst to start from a flexible and known base. The book volume covers the theoretical grounding for the code streams provided, a chapter on 'estimation in practice', a series of 11 case studies where the code streams are operationalized, as well as a synthesis, an extension to inequality, and a look forward.
This excellent volume combines theoretical discussion of the utility-consistent cost of basic needs poverty approach and first-order dominance multidimensional poverty analysis, empirical application, and practical tools in the form of user guides for estimation software...essential reading for applied poverty researchers...
Table of Contents:
PART I: PRINCIPLES AND CHOICES
Measuring poverty and wellbeing in developing countries: motivation and overview
Absolute poverty lines
Multidimensional first-order dominance comparisons of population wellbeing
Estimation in practice
PART II: COUNTRY APPLICATIONS
Estimating utility-consistent poverty in Ethiopia, 2000-11
Estimating utility-consistent poverty in Madagascar, 2001-10
Methods matter: the sensitivity of Malawian poverty estimates to definitions, data, and assumptions
A review of consumption poverty estimation for Mozambique
Poverty trends in Pakistan
Uganda: a new set of utility-consistent poverty lines
Estimating multidimensional childhood poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo: 2007-2013
Child deprivation and income poverty in Ghana
Spatial and temporal multidimensional poverty in Nigeria
Multidimensional assessment of child welfare for Tanzania
Estimating multidimensional poverty in Zambia
PART III: SUMMING-UP AND LESSONS LEARNT
Synthesis
Keep it real: measuring real inequality using survey data from developing countries
Conclusions and looking forward
APPENDIX A: User guide to Poverty Line Estimation Analytical Software-PLEASe
APPENDIX B: User guide to Estimating First-Order Dominance software (EFOD)
