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9780190212766 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 7, 2016, cover price $125.00
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9780190212773 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 7, 2016, cover price $49.95
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9780821372746 | World Bank, April 7, 2008, cover price $30.00
Product Description: Poverty comparisons - such as whether poverty has increased, or where it is greatest, are typically clouded in conceptual and methodological uncertainties. How should individual well-being be assessed in deciding who is poor? Is a household survey a reliable guide? Where should the poverty line be drawn, and does the choice matter? This monograph surveys the issues that need to be considered in answering these questions, providing an accessible introduction to the most recent literature...read more
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9780415274593 | Taylor & Francis, May 1, 2002, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: Poverty comparisons - such as whether poverty has increased, or where it is greatest, are typically clouded in conceptual and methodological uncertainties.
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9783718654024 | Routledge, June 1, 1994, cover price $53.95
Poverty comparisons - such as whether poverty has increased, or where it is greatest, are typically clouded in conceptual and methodological uncertainties. How should individual well-being be assessed in deciding who is poor? Is a household survey a reliable guide? Where should the poverty line be drawn, and does the choice matter? This monograph surveys the issues that need to be considered in answering these questions, providing an accessible introduction to the most recent literature. The strengths and weaknesses of past methods are discussed, and a summary of methodological recommendations is given. A number of new analytical tools are described which can greatly facilitate poverty comparisons, recognising the uncertainties involved.
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9780821341162 | World Bank, November 1, 1999, cover price $22.00
9780821335468 | World Bank, March 1, 1996, cover price $22.00
9780821320365 | World Bank, February 1, 1992, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Poverty comparisons - such as whether poverty has increased, or where it is greatest, are typically clouded in conceptual and methodological uncertainties.
Product Description: A poverty line helps focus the attention of governments and civil society on the living conditions of the poor. This paper offers a critical overview of alternative approaches to setting poverty lines. In reviewing the methods found in practice, the paper tries to throw light on, and go some way toward resolving, ongoing debates about poverty measurement, emphasizing those debates which would appear to have greatest bearing on policy discussions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780821342268 | World Bank, June 1, 1998, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A poverty line helps focus the attention of governments and civil society on the living conditions of the poor.
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9780821327661 | World Bank, June 1, 1994, cover price $22.00
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9780821327241 | World Bank, December 1, 1993, cover price $22.00
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9780821318836 | World Bank, July 1, 1991, cover price $6.95
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9780821319406 | World Bank, June 1, 1991, cover price $6.95
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9780821316221 | World Bank, August 1, 1990, cover price $7.95
Product Description: Famines have presented a persistent challenge to economic thought, provoking debates over the importance of aggregate food availability and the role of markets and governments in allocating limited food. This study of the economics of famine applies some modern methods of economic investigation to such issues, showing how the sharp increases in mortality observed during famines can arise without a decline in aggregate food availability, and how the markets' use of information about future scarcity is crucial to their performance during a famine...read more
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9780198287278 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1990), cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Famines have presented a persistent challenge to economic thought, provoking debates over the importance of aggregate food availability and the role of markets and governments in allocating limited food.
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