Poverty, inequality, and population: essays in development and applied measurement

In the assessment of a society's process of development, socioeconomic indicators such as poverty and discrimination, inequality, child labour, age and sexcomposition etc. need to be explored through rigorous measurement and carefulanalysis. This volume addresses both the formal elements of measurement as well as applications of these concerns in addressing the various dimensions of development. INDICE: 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.

• ISBN: 978-0-19-806794-8
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 266
• Fecha Publicación: 30/09/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés