Poverty Comparisons
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction to the Series -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Concepts and Methods of Poverty Analysis -- 2.1 Conceptual Approaches to Measuring 'Well-Being' -- 2.2 Using Household Surveys for Welfare Measurement -- Survey Design -- Goods Coverage and Valuation -- Variability and the Time Period of Measurement -- Comparisons across Households at Similar Consumption Levels -- 2.3 Some Alternative Measures -- Real Consumption per Equivalent Adult -- Nutritional Indicators -- Anthropological Methods -- Summary -- 2.4 Poverty Lines -- 'Absolute' versus 'Relative' Poverty -- Basic Needs Poverty Lines -- Relative Poverty Lines -- Subjective Poverty Lines -- Dual Poverty Lines -- Summary -- 2.5 Adding Up Poverty -- Poverty Measures -- Measurement Errors -- Estimation -- Hypothesis Testing -- Summary -- 2.6 Decompositions -- Poverty Profiles -- Decomposing a Change in Poverty: Growth and Redistribution Components -- The Sectoral Decomposition of a Change in Poverty -- 2.7 The Robustness of Ordinal Poverty Comparisons -- A Single Measure of Standard of Living -- More than One Dimension -- Summary -- 3. Putting Theory into Practice -- 3.1 How Well Can the Prevalence of Poverty in a Country be Predicted Without a Household Survey? -- 3.2 How Well do Cross-Sectional Indicators Identify the Long-Term Poor? -- 3.3 Which Sector or Region has More Poverty? -- Urban-Rural Poverty Lines in Indonesia -- Examples of More Detailed Sectoral and Regional Poverty Profiles -- 3.4 How Reliable are Assessments of Progress in Poverty Reduction? -- Bangladesh in the 1980s -- Indonesia in the 1980s -- 3.5 What is the Relative Importance of Growth versus Redistribution? -- 3.6 How Important are Different Sectors to Changes in Poverty? -- 3.7 How do Price Changes Affect the Poor? -- Rice Prices and Poverty in Indonesia