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.
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.
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.
* 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.
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