The economics of poverty : history, measurement, and policy / Martin Ravallion.
"An overview of the economic development of and policies intended to combat poverty around the world"--
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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| Online Access: | Oxford Scholarship Online |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Origins of the idea of a world free of poverty
- New thinking on poverty after 1950
- Measuring welfare
- Poverty lines
- Poverty and inequality measures
- Impact evaluation
- Dimensions of poverty and inequality
- Growth, inequality and poverty
- Economy-wide and sectoral policies
- Targeted interventions
- Conclusions
- Past progress and future challenges.