POVERTY, INEQUALITY, AND POPULATION: Essays in Development and Applied Measurement

 How is poverty distributed across well-defined population subgroups? What is the potential impact of redistributive taxation on poverty? What is the nexus between poverty and child labour? What are some crucial aspects of the age and gender composition of a population? In providing answers to such questions, this volume engages both with conceptual issues in the measurement of specific social indicators and with illustrative applications of these concerns to actual data sets. This paperback edition includes a new chapter on multidimensional poverty measurement and a new preface.