A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality--Theory and Practice : Streamlined Analysis with ADePT Software

A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality: Theory and Practice is an introduction to the theory and practice of measuring poverty and inequality, as well as a user's guide for analyzing income or consumption distribution for any standard household dataset using the World Bank'...

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Main Authors:	Foster, James, Seth, Suman, Lokshin, Michael, Sajaia, Zurab
Format:	Publication
Language:	en_US
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2013
Subjects:	Income standards Inequality measures Poverty measures Distribution Sensitivity Analyses Dominance Analyses Chronic poverty Inequality of opportunity Watts Index SST Index CHUC Index Gini coefficient Lorenz curve Growth curve
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13731

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spelling	okr-10986-137312021-04-23T14:03:10Z A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality--Theory and Practice : Streamlined Analysis with ADePT Software Foster, James Seth, Suman Lokshin, Michael Sajaia, Zurab Income standards Inequality measures Poverty measures Distribution Sensitivity Analyses Dominance Analyses Chronic poverty Inequality of opportunity Watts Index SST Index CHUC Index Gini coefficient Lorenz curve Growth curve A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality: Theory and Practice is an introduction to the theory and practice of measuring poverty and inequality, as well as a user's guide for analyzing income or consumption distribution for any standard household dataset using the World Bank's ADePT software. The approach taken here considers income standards as building blocks for basic measurement, then uses them to construct inequality and poverty measures. This unified approach provides advantages in interpreting and contrasting the measures and in understanding the way measures vary over time and space. Several recent initiatives have lowered the cost of accessing household datasets. The ADePT software enables users to analyze microdata from household surveys and other sources and generate print-ready, standardized tables and charts. It can also be used to simulate the impact of economic shocks, cash transfers and other policy instruments on poverty, and inequality. The software automates analysis, helps minimize human errors, and encourages development of new economic analysis methods. Of interest to teachers and students as well as to policy practitioners, A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality will empower researchers to plumb greater depths in searching for regularity in larger and larger datasets. This book should help to enrich discussion and analysis relating to the World Bank's recent effort toward defining new targets and indicators for promoting work on eradicating poverty and enhancing shared prosperity. 2013-06-04T15:59:37Z 2013-06-04T15:59:37Z 2013-05-10 978-0-8213-8461-9 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13731 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research :: Publication
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topic	Income standards Inequality measures Poverty measures Distribution Sensitivity Analyses Dominance Analyses Chronic poverty Inequality of opportunity Watts Index SST Index CHUC Index Gini coefficient Lorenz curve Growth curve
spellingShingle	Income standards Inequality measures Poverty measures Distribution Sensitivity Analyses Dominance Analyses Chronic poverty Inequality of opportunity Watts Index SST Index CHUC Index Gini coefficient Lorenz curve Growth curve Foster, James Seth, Suman Lokshin, Michael Sajaia, Zurab A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality--Theory and Practice : Streamlined Analysis with ADePT Software
description	A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality: Theory and Practice is an introduction to the theory and practice of measuring poverty and inequality, as well as a user's guide for analyzing income or consumption distribution for any standard household dataset using the World Bank's ADePT software. The approach taken here considers income standards as building blocks for basic measurement, then uses them to construct inequality and poverty measures. This unified approach provides advantages in interpreting and contrasting the measures and in understanding the way measures vary over time and space. Several recent initiatives have lowered the cost of accessing household datasets. The ADePT software enables users to analyze microdata from household surveys and other sources and generate print-ready, standardized tables and charts. It can also be used to simulate the impact of economic shocks, cash transfers and other policy instruments on poverty, and inequality. The software automates analysis, helps minimize human errors, and encourages development of new economic analysis methods. Of interest to teachers and students as well as to policy practitioners, A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality will empower researchers to plumb greater depths in searching for regularity in larger and larger datasets. This book should help to enrich discussion and analysis relating to the World Bank's recent effort toward defining new targets and indicators for promoting work on eradicating poverty and enhancing shared prosperity.
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author	Foster, James Seth, Suman Lokshin, Michael Sajaia, Zurab
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title	A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality--Theory and Practice : Streamlined Analysis with ADePT Software
title_short	A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality--Theory and Practice : Streamlined Analysis with ADePT Software
title_full	A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality--Theory and Practice : Streamlined Analysis with ADePT Software
title_fullStr	A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality--Theory and Practice : Streamlined Analysis with ADePT Software
title_full_unstemmed	A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality--Theory and Practice : Streamlined Analysis with ADePT Software
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