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Covering global, comparative, and single-country contexts, this Research Handbook presents wide-ranging, cutting-edge research on poverty and inequality. It maps out international trends in poverty and inequality and explores the key conceptual and operational frameworks, practical analyses, and policy applications and outcomes.
Udaya R. Wagle brings together 27 substantive chapters with research and analyses from a diverse body of established authorities and researchers to create a forum and examine the complex and often under-explored issues related to poverty and inequality. Using empirical data and insights from the Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, the individual chapters examine and explain how economic and social policies and programs have affected poverty and inequality. While unprecedented economic progress in the past few decades has improved standards of living across the globe, the Handbook concludes that creating a just and fair society requires policies that go beyond expanding economic opportunities.
Providing a comprehensive coverage of the research and analysis into poverty and inequality, this incisive Handbook will be an invaluable reference text for students and scholars of economics, sociology, social policy, and comparative and development studies. The practical insights into policies and programs covered here will also benefit policymakers and practitioners interested in reducing poverty and inequality globally.
Contents
Contents:
Preface xiv
1 Introduction to poverty and inequality 1
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PART I CONCEPTUAL AND OPERATIONAL FRAMEWORKS
2 Poverty measurement: Evolving concepts and measurement frameworks 15
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3 Absolute and relative income poverty measurement: a survey 36
Benoit Decerf
4 Cumulative deprivation: identification and aggregation 52
Koen Decancq
5 Concepts and measurements of economic inequality 68
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6 Feminist approaches to poverty and gender inequality 88
Randy Albelda
PART II MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS
7 Are women poorer? A cross-country analysis of gender differentials in multidimensional poverty 103
Francesco Burchi and Daniele Malerba
8 Trends in multidimensional poverty in Latin America 118
María Emma Santos
9 Examination of the effects of variation in the measurement of multidimensional poverty in the United States 138
Roger White and Lindley Lee-Niegas
10 Multidimensional poverty in Hong Kong: measurements and implications 172
Siu Ming Chan
11 Poverty, social mobility, and the middle class: evidence from South Africa 186
Simone Schotte
12 Multidimensional poverty in India: a regional level analysis in the context of Sustainable Development Goals 205
Pinaki Das, Bibek Paria, and Shama Firdaush
13 Consistent, dense measures of inequality using grouped data: a global approach 224
James Galbraith and Jaehee Choi
14 The possible impact of changes in demography on economic inequality in Europe 245
M. Azhar Hussain and Bent Greve
15 Workers' social capital and employment outcomes: the case of MENA countries 261
Jieun Lee and Vladimir Hlasny
16 Determinants of intimate partner violence in Nepal 282
Alice Louise Kassens
17 The dynamics of poverty and inequality in Chile and Honduras over the past three decades 305
Carlos Villalobos
PART III POLICY APPLICATIONS AND OUTCOMES
18 Social protection, poverty, and inequality: global patterns and changes 323
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19 Social assistance in low- and middle-income countries 350
Armando Barrientos
20 Poverty and inequality in European welfare states 367
Bent Greve
21 Poverty in Mexico: trends, determinants, and policies 378
Jorge Garza-Rodriguez
22 Is growth pro-poor or pro-rich? The role of national pro-poor targeted programmes in Vietnam 392
Phuc Van Phan and Martin O'Brien
23 Practices of microfinance and poverty reduction in Bangladesh 408
Mohammad Shahjahan Chowdhury
24 Income and energy usage in developing economies: using the case of Ghana 422
Kenneth Ofori-Boateng, Williams Ohemeng, Innocent Tetteh, and Elvis Kwame Agyapong
25 International migration for poverty alleviation? The neoliberal element in the debates on migration for development and poverty alleviation 439
Meltem Yılmaz Şener
26 Measuring the extra cost of disability: approaches, challenges, and prospects 453
Vickie L. Edwards
27 Concluding observations 467
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Index 471
