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Chapter 1
1 Introduction ‘I live under the roof of falling tiles.’ This self-description of poverty, tucked away in Victor Hugo’s Les misérables, is by a character called Bossuet, who was, it seems, both merry...
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Chapter 2
 2 The framework This chapter introduces the notation and basic concepts that will be used throughout the book. The chapter is organized into four sections. Section 2.1 starts with a review of...
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Chapter 4
4 Counting Approaches: Definitions, Origins, and Implementions An assessment of measurement methodologies based on their properties and normative characteristics is illuminating and draws our...
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Chapter 5
5 The Alkire-Foster Counting Methodology This chapter provides a systematic overview of the multidimensional measurement methodology of Alkire and Foster (2007, 2011a), with an emphasis on the first...
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Chapter 6
6 Normative Choices in Measurement Design The modern field of inequality measurement grew out of the intelligent application of quantitative methods to imperfect data in the hope of illuminating...
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Chapter 7
7 Data and Analysis Chapter 6 transitioned from considerations about selecting a measurement methodology (Chapters 3–5), to issues met in implementing real-world measures that undergird and reinforce...
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Chapter 8
8 Robustness Analysis and Statistical Inference Chapter 5 presented the methodology for the Adjusted Headcount Ratio poverty index  and its different partial indices; Chapter 6 discussed how to design...
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Chapter 9
9Â Distribution and Dynamics This chapter provides techniques required to measure and analyse inequality among the poor (section 9.1), to describe changes over time using repeated cross-sectional data...
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Chapter 10
10 Some Regression models for AF measures From a policy perspective, in addition to measuring poverty we must perform some vital analyses regarding the transmission mechanisms between policies and...
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