D. Jayaraj, S. Subramanian

Poverty, Inequality, and Population

Essays in Development and Applied Measurement

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Poverty, inequality, and population are constitutive elements of the subject of development, however, the measurement of these is a tricky enterprise. This volume addresses the issues in the measurement of specific social indicators conceptually and empirically with illustrative applications of these elements to actual data sets.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Prairie Wind Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 142mm x 216mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780198088509
• ISBN-10: 0198088507
• Artikelnr.: 37649753

Autorenporträt

D. Jayaraj is Professor of Economics at Madras Institute of Development Studies. S. Subramanian is Professor of Economics at Madras Institute of Development Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Introduction
* 1. Out of School and (Probably) in Work: Child Labour and Capability
Deprivation in India
* 2. Poverty Eradication Through Redistributive Taxation: Some
Elementary Considerations
* 3. Poverty and Discrimination: Measurement and Evidence from Rural
India
* 4. Horizontal and Vertical Inequality: Some Interconnections and
Indicators
* 5. The Distribution of Household Wealth in India
* 6. Comparing the Age Structures of Populations
* 7. Assessing the 'Agedness' of a Population
* 8. Assessing the 'Femaleness' of a Population
* 9. Women's Well-being and the Sex Ratio at Birth: Some Suggestive
Evidence from India
* 10. The Well-being Implications of a Change in the Sex Ratio of a
Population
* 11. Manufacturing Hysteria: On Census-inspired 'Nationalism'
* 12. Abusing Demography
* Bibliography.