Measuring poverty around the world /
In this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of the world's great social scientists and a pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality, offers an inspiring analysis of a central question: What is poverty and how much of it is there around the globe? The persistence of poverty - in...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press
[2019]
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvc77fd6 |
Taula de continguts:
- Introduction
- What do we mean by poverty?
- Clarifying concepts
- The key role of data
- Global poverty and the sustainable development goals
- Poverty in Asia and the pacific
- Africa: diversity of experience
- Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Poverty in rich countries and a global measure of poverty
- Conclusions: beyond $1.90 a day
- Growth, inequality, and poverty reduction
- Poverty and climate change.