The economics of poverty : history, measurement, and policy /
"While there is no denying that the world has made huge progress against absolute poverty over the last 200 years, until recent times the bulk of that progress had been made in wealthy countries only. The good news is that we have seen greater progress against poverty in the developing world in...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
c2016.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- History of Thought. Origins of the idea of a world free of poverty ; New thinking on poverty after 1950
- Measures and Methods. Measuring welfare ; Poverty lines ; Poverty and inequality measures ; Impact evaluation
- Poverty and Policy. Dimensions of poverty and inequality ; Growth, inequality and poverty ; Economy-wide and sectoral policies ; Targeted interventions
- Conclusions: Past progress and future challenges.