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Measurement of Poverty, Undernutrition and Child Mortality

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Although the world has seen a strong increase in global incomes in the last two decades and consequently a decline in global poverty rates, the number of persons living in absolute poverty remains on unacceptably high levels. Besides rising incomes can not distract from the fact that resources to fi...

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Main Author: Misselhorn, Mark (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2018
Series:Goettinger Studien zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics 24
Subjects:
Political science & theory
Political structure & processes
Development economics & emerging economies
Economic systems & structures
Armut
Child
Empirical Analysis of Poverty
Entwicklungsländer
Human Development Index
Kindersterblichkeit
Measurement
Misselhorn
Mortality
Multidimensional Poverty Measures
Poverty
Undernutrition
Undernutrition Measurement
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Summary:Although the world has seen a strong increase in global incomes in the last two decades and consequently a decline in global poverty rates, the number of persons living in absolute poverty remains on unacceptably high levels. Besides rising incomes can not distract from the fact that resources to fight global problems remain scarce. These resources have to be devoted to the fight against different global problems like the fight against communicable and non-communicable diseases (especially HIV/AIDS and Malaria) or the fight against global warming. The main precondition to achieve the best results with these limited resources is a good knowledge about the determinants and the best policies to fight each problem. But before being able to analyze the determinants of the different global problems and especially of poverty, it is of fundamental importance to find the right indicators for each phenomenon. This book contributes to the discussion of appropriate poverty indicators for the different dimensions of poverty like income poverty, undernutrition and child mortality and proposes a multidimensional poverty indicator that takes the income distribution into consideration.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (155 p.)
ISBN:b13885
9783631753637
Access:Open Access

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