Poverty Monitoring
An International Concern
Published in October 1993
Book
Hardback
225 pages
978-0-333-59353-0 (ISBN)
Description
This volume assembles the major papers discussed at an international workshop on poverty monitoring to evaluate poverty indicators and poverty monitoring systems in order to increase attention to poverty issues and improve policies to alleviate poverty. Major areas covered include the measurement of poverty trends, the usefulness of poverty indicators, whether or not structural adjustment policies affect more traditional measures to combat poverty, rapid policy evaluation for vulnerable groups and how international agencies can deal with poverty monitoring issues. Rolph van der Hoeven is the author of "Planning for Basic Needs: A Soft Option or a Solid Policy?", co-author of "Basic Needs in Development Planning", and co-editor of "World Recession and Global Interdependence" and "Africa's Recovery in the 1990s". Other works by Richard Anker include "Sex Inequalities in Urban Employment in the Third World", "Women's Participation in the Labour Force: A Methods Test for Improving its Measurements", "Economic-Demographic Relationships and Employment in Kenya" and "Fertility Determinants in Developing Countries".
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables and figures, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
401 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-59353-0 (9780333593530)
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Content
Foreword - a challenge to poverty, Richard Jolly et al. Part 1 Measurement and trends of poverty: measurement and trends of poverty, Gary S. Fields; poverty concepts and measurement, Paul Streeten; the evolution of poverty in Latin America in the 1980s, Pedro Sainz. Part 2 Poverty indicators: poverty measurement and alternative indicators, Julio Boltvinik; the human development report 1990 and the world development report 1990, Ravi Kanbur. Part 3 Planning for poverty alleviation in a context of adjustment: monitoring poverty and employment trends - an index for the social debt, Ricardo Infante and Victor Tokman; can safety nets and compensatory programmes be used for poverty alleviation, Rolph van der Hoeven; budgetary policy and social planning - listing some issues for the agenda, Ricardo Carciofi. Part 4 Rapid policy action for vulnerable groups: rapid policy interventions, Paul Streeten; identifying and targeting poverty alleviation in Chile, Alvaro Garcia; towards a rapid assessment survey of poverty, Richard Bilsborrow. Part 5 International agencies' perspectives on poverty - poverty alleviation - how can UNICEF contribute?, Eva Jespersen; on improving public policies for the poor, Ehthisam Ahmad and Nigel Chalk; poverty estimates for the ILO's world labour report, Wouter van Ginneken. Part 6 Conclusions, Richard Anker et al.