Handbook on Poverty + Inequality (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780821376133)

For anyone wanting to learn, in practical terms, how to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze poverty, the Handbook is the place to start. Designed initially to support training courses on poverty analysis, it consists of explanatory text with numerous examples, interspersed with multiple-choice questions (to ensure active learning) and combined with extensive practical exercises using Stata statistical software. The sixteen chapters cover the measurement of poverty and poverty lines, how to create poverty profiles, the comparison of poverty over time and across countries, vulnerability to poverty, monitoring and evaluation of poverty, and the effects of public policy on inequality and poverty. This book will serve as a very useful function in introducing newcomers to poverty analysis and to the entire range of analytical issues that they will be exposed to. It will be required reading for development partners, academics, and researchers for better understanding the rudiments and intricacies of analyzing poverty.

Author: Shahidur R. Khandker, Jonathan Haughton
ISBN-10: 0821376136
ISBN-13: 9780821376133
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Language: English
Published: 03/27/2009
Pages: 442
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.96lbs
Size: 9.21h x 7.52w x 0.96d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Supplements 11/15/2008 pg. 62
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2009 pg. 90