Poverty, inequality, and population : essays in development and applied measurement /

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Author / Creator:	Jayaraj, D., Prof.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Description:	xvi, 298 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Economic development. Economic development -- Social aspects. Poverty -- India. Equality. Economic development. Economic development -- Social aspects. Equality. Population. Poverty. India -- Population -- Statistics. India. Statistics.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8550983

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Other authors / contributors:	Subramanian, S., Prof.
ISBN:	9780198067948 (hbk.) 0198067941 (hbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [284]-298).
Summary:	Addresses the ability to measure the categories of poverty, inequality, and population; the role of measurement in social explanation; and the philosophical bases of measurement-related judgments.
Other form:	Online version: Jayaraj, D., Prof. Poverty, inequality, and population. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010

Table of Contents:

Out of school and (probably) in work : child labour and capability deprivation in India
Poverty-eradication through redistributive taxation : some elementary considerations
Poverty and discrimination : measurement and evidence from rural India
Horizontal and vertical inequality : some interconnections and indicators
The distribution of household wealth in India
Comparing the age structures of populations
Assessing the 'agedness' of a population
Assessing the 'femaleness' of a population
Women's well-being and the sex ratio at birth : some suggestive evidence from India
The well-being implications of a change in the sex-ratio of a population
Manufacturing hysteria : on census-inspired 'nationalism'
Abusing demography.

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