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Measurement of Poverty, Undernutrition and Child Mortality.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Misselhorn, Mark.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Goettinger Studien Zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction and Overview
  • 1 The Semi-Elasticity of Poverty Reduction
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Influence of Income and Distribution Changes
  • 1.3 Growth Elasticity versus Semi-Elasticity
  • 1.4 Empirical Results
  • 1.5 Conclusion
  • 2 Undernutrition and the Nutrition Transition
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Data
  • 2.3 The new WHO Child Growth Standard
  • 2.4 The Nutrition Transition
  • 2.5 Results
  • 2.5.1 The theoretical composition of the underweight indicator
  • 2.5.2 The empirical composition of the underweight indicator
  • 2.5.3 The Composition of Undernutrition across countries
  • 2.5.4 Composition of Undernutrition across subgroups
  • 2.5.5 Changes in Undernutrition over Time
  • 2.6 Conclusion
  • 3 A Regional Puzzle of Child Mortality and Undernutrition
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.1.1 Child Mortality and Undernutrition
  • 3.1.2 The South Asia - Sub-Saharan Africa Enigma
  • 3.2 Methodology
  • 3.2.1 Multilevel Analysis
  • 3.2.2 The Basic Multilevel Model
  • 3.2.3 Model Specification
  • 3.3 Empirical Analysis
  • 3.3.1 Data Description
  • 3.3.2 Descriptive Statistics
  • 3.3.3 Regression Results
  • 3.3.4 Simulations
  • 3.4 Conclusion
  • 4 A Human Development Index by Income Groups
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Methodology
  • 4.2.1 General idea and overview
  • 4.2.2 Imputing income for DHS households
  • 4.2.3 Calculating the life expectancy index by income quintiles
  • 4.2.4 Calculating the education index by income quintiles
  • 4.2.5 Calculating the GDP index by income quintiles
  • 4.2.6 Calculating the overall HDI and the HDI by income quintiles
  • 4.2.7 Calculating the HDI by income quintiles for OECD countries
  • 4.3 Illustrating sample of countries
  • 4.4 Results
  • 4.5 Limits of the approach
  • 4.6 Conclusion
  • Appendix B
  • Appendix C
  • Appendix D
  • Bibliography.

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