Poverty, Inequality and Development Essays in Honor of Erik Thorbecke
Traditionally, there have been two strands in the analysis of poverty, inequality and development – a micro strand that focuses on individual behavior, welfare economics and the measurement of inequality and poverty; and a macro strand that analyzes economy-wide policies and the role of institutions...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
2006, 2006
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2006 |
| Series: | Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Poverty, Inequality and Development: Micro-Macro Perspectives and Linkages
- Erik Thorbecke: Growth and Roots
- On the Consistency of Poverty Lines
- Poverty Indices
- Should Poverty and Inequality Measures be Combined?
- Equality of What? Evidence from India
- Household Investments in Education and Income Inequality at the Community Level: Evidence from Indonesia
- Poverty Traps and Safety Nets
- Progress in the Modeling of Rural Households’ Behavior under Market Failures
- Labor Laws and Labor Welfare in the Context of the Indian Experience
- Macro Models and Multipliers: Leontief, Stone, Keynes, and CGE Models
- Multiplier Effects and the Reduction of Poverty
- Developing an Accounting Matrix for the Euro Area: Issues and Applications
- Globalization, Economic Reform, and Structural Price Transmission: Sam Decomposition Techniques with an Empirical Application to Vietnam
- Institutions, Factor Endowment and Inequality in Ghana, Kenya and Senegal
- Incentives, Inequality and the Allocation of Aid When Conditionality Doesn’t Work: An Optimal Nonlinear Taxation Approach
- Agricultural Research and Policy to Achieve Nutrition Goals
- Is Dualism Worth Revisiting?