Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries (WIDER Studies in Development Economics) - Hardcover

Arndt, Channing; Tarp, Finn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198744803 ISBN 13: 9780198744801

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2017

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Provides a review of the major approaches employed for estimating poverty lines and how poverty is estimated in practice.

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Channing Arndt is a senior research fellow at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, UNU-WIDER. He has substantial research management experience including leadership of interdisciplinary teams. His programme of research has focused on poverty alleviation and growth, agricultural development, market integration, gender and discrimination, the implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, technological change, trade policy, aid effectiveness, infrastructure investment, energy and biofuels, climate variability, and the economic implications of climate change.

Finn Tarp is Director of UNU-WIDER and Coordinator of the Development Economics Research Group (DERG) at the University of Copenhagen. He is a leading international expert on issues of development strategy and foreign aid, with a sustained interest in poverty, income distribution, and growth. He has published widely in international academic journals alongside various books. He is a member of the World Bank Chief Economist's Council of Eminent Persons and is a resource person of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC).

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• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198744803
• ISBN 13: 9780198744801
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 372
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