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Book SynopsisThis volume contains research on how we measure poverty, inequality and welfare and how we use such measurements to devise policies to deliver social mobility. It contains ten papers, some of which were presented at the third meeting of The Theory and Empirics of Poverty, Inequality and Mobility at Queen Mary University of London, London, October 2016.
The volume begins with theoretical issues at the frontier of the literature. Three papers discuss the impact of social welfare policies on poverty measurement, and with innovations on the measurement of relative bipolarisation. Two papers address the conceptualisation of multidimensional poverty by incorporating inequality within the poor, and that of chronic poverty for time dependent analyses, with applications to India and Haiti, and Ethiopia respectively.
The second half of the volume consists of empirical contributions, using novel techniques and datasets to investigate the dynamics of poverty and welfare. These studies track the dynamics of poverty using unique datasets for China, the Caucasus and Italy.
The volume concludes with investigations about within-household inequalities between siblings due to the unequal effects of conditional cash transfers in Cambodia and a cross-country study on the effect of historical income inequality on entrepreneurship in developing countries.
Trade ReviewEconomists, bankers, and development and business professionals present 10 papers from the "Theory and Empirics of Poverty, Inequality and Mobility" meeting held in London October 2016. Their topics include an adverse social welfare consequence of a rich-to-poor income transfer: a relative deprivation approach, the necessary requirement of median independence for relative bipolarization measurement, chronic poverty and poverty dynamics: resolving a paradox in the normative basis for intertemporal poverty measures, immigration and poverty: the case of Italy, and whether inequality fosters or hinders the growth of entrepreneurship in the long-run. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *
Table of ContentsAn Adverse Social Welfare Consequence of a Rich-to-Poor Income Transfer: A Relative Deprivation ApproachThe Benchmark of Maximum Relative Bipolarisation The Necessary Requirement of Median Independence for Relative Bipolarisation Measurement Did Poverty Reduction Reach the Poorest of the Poor? Complementary Measures of Poverty and Inequality in the Counting Approach Chronic Poverty and Poverty Dynamics: Resolving a Paradox in the Normative Basis for Intertemporal Poverty Measures Curbing One's Consumption and the Impoverishment Process: The Case of Western Asia Exploring Multidimensional Poverty in China: 2010 to 2014 Immigration and Poverty: The Case of Italy Own and Sibling Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Theory and Evidence from Cambodia Does inequality foster or hinder the growth of entrepreneurship in the long-run?
