Martin Ravallion

The Economics of Poverty (eBook, ePUB)

History, Measurement, and Policy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in many places. The world's poorest have made only a small absolute gain over those 30 years. Progress has been slow against relative poverty as judged by the standards of the country and time one lives in, and a great many people in the world's emerging middle class remain vulnerable to falling back into poverty. The Economics of Poverty reviews critically past and present debates on poverty, spanning both rich and poor countries. The book provides an accessible new synthesis of current economic thinking on key questions: How is poverty measured? How much poverty is there? Why does poverty exist, and is it inevitable? What can be done to reduce poverty? Can it even be eliminated? The book does not assume that readers know economics already. Those new to the subject get a lot of help along the way in understanding its concepts and methods. Economics lives through its relevance to real world problems, and here the problem of poverty is both the central focus and a vehicle for learning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190212797
• Artikelnr.: 44228940

Autorenporträt

Martin Ravallion holds the inaugural Edmond D. Villani Chair of Economics at Georgetown University, prior to which he was the Director of the World Bank's research department. He has advised numerous governments and international agencies on poverty and policies for fighting it, and he has written extensively on this and other subjects in economics, including four books and 200 papers in scholarly journals and edited volumes. He is President of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality. Amongst various prizes and awards, in 2012 he was awarded the John Kenneth Galbraith Prize from the American Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1: HISTORY OF THOUGHT
Chapter 1: Origins of the Idea of a World Free of Poverty
Chapter 2: New Thinking on Poverty after 1950
PART 2: MEASURES AND METHODS
Chapter 3: Measuring Welfare
Chapter 4: Poverty Lines
Chapter 5: Poverty and Inequality Measures
Chapter 6: Impact Evaluation
PART 3: POVERTY AND POLICY
Chapter 7: Dimensions of Poverty and Inequality in the World
Chapter 8: Growth, Inequality and Poverty
Chapter 9: Economy-Wide and Sectoral Policies
Chapter 10: Targeted Interventions
Conclusions: Past Progress and Future Challenges