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B020849 - MEASUREMENT AND CAUSES OF POVERTY
Academic Year 2014-15
Coorte 2014 - Second Cycle Degree in ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT
Course year
First year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Economics and Management (DISEI)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
SECS-S/05 - SOCIAL STATISTICS
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
48
Teaching Term
02/03/2015 ⇒ 05/06/2015
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
Course Content
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Lectureship
Mutuality
Course teached as:
B019400 - MEASUREMENT AND CAUSES OF POVERTY
Second Cycle Degree in DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
B019400 - MEASUREMENT AND CAUSES OF POVERTY
Second Cycle Degree in DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
Teaching Language
english
Course Content
Part 1: Income distribution analysis
Part 2: Analysis of poverty
2.1 Different approaches to poverty analysis
2.2 Mono dimensional poverty analysis
2.3 Multidimensional poverty analysis
2.4 Analysis of vulnerability
2.5 A macroeconomic approach: introduction to SAM
2.6 SAM as macroeconomic model of poverty analysis
Part 3: Poverty and the other MDGs recent trends and the debate on poverty reduction strategies;
Part 4: Poverty reduction policies
Part 2: Analysis of poverty
2.1 Different approaches to poverty analysis
2.2 Mono dimensional poverty analysis
2.3 Multidimensional poverty analysis
2.4 Analysis of vulnerability
2.5 A macroeconomic approach: introduction to SAM
2.6 SAM as macroeconomic model of poverty analysis
Part 3: Poverty and the other MDGs recent trends and the debate on poverty reduction strategies;
Part 4: Poverty reduction policies
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
1. Income distribution analysis
Angus Deaton , The Analysis of Household Surveys:
Chapter. III.1 pgg. 134-140
John Hopkins Univ. Press
J. Duclos-A Araar, Poverty and Equity, Springer
Part I, chapters IV.1, IV.2, IV.3, IV.4, IV.5, VII.1, VII.2, VII.3
http://www.idrc.ca/openebooks/229-5/
J. Haughton, S. R. Khandker, Handbook on Poverty and Inequality, World Bank
Chapter VI, XV
mail.beaconhill.org/~j_haughton/HandbookPovIneq.pdf
2. Poverty analysis
J. Duclos-A Araar, Poverty and Equity, Springer
Part I, chapter 1
http://www.idrc.ca/openebooks/229-5/
J. Haughton, S. R. Khandker, Handbook on Poverty and Inequality, World Bank
Chapters II, III, IV, V, X, XI, XII
mail.beaconhill.org/~j_haughton/HandbookPovIneq.pdf
UNDP: Handbook on Poverty Statistics
Chapters III, VIII
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/poverty/Chapters.htm
Alkire-Foster: Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement, OPHI working paper series n.7 May 2008
SAM (Social Accounting Matrix) macro approach
Social Accounting Matrices: a basis for planning (Pyatt-Round eds)
Chapters: Introduction, I, VIII
http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1999/12/02/000178830_98101901520228/Rendered/PDF/multi_page.pdf
IFPRI, Social Accounting Matrices and Multiplier Analysis: an Introduction with Exercises
Chapters I, II, III, IV
http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/sp5.pdf
The Impact of Economic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution: Evaluation Techniques and Tools (edited with Luiz Pereira da Silva), World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2003
Chapter XIV
http://www.pep-net.org/fileadmin/medias/pdf/chapter14.pdf
G.Pyatt, A SAM approach to modeling, Journal of Policy Modelling n. 3 1988
Angus Deaton , The Analysis of Household Surveys:
Chapter. III.1 pgg. 134-140
John Hopkins Univ. Press
J. Duclos-A Araar, Poverty and Equity, Springer
Part I, chapters IV.1, IV.2, IV.3, IV.4, IV.5, VII.1, VII.2, VII.3
http://www.idrc.ca/openebooks/229-5/
J. Haughton, S. R. Khandker, Handbook on Poverty and Inequality, World Bank
Chapter VI, XV
mail.beaconhill.org/~j_haughton/HandbookPovIneq.pdf
2. Poverty analysis
J. Duclos-A Araar, Poverty and Equity, Springer
Part I, chapter 1
http://www.idrc.ca/openebooks/229-5/
J. Haughton, S. R. Khandker, Handbook on Poverty and Inequality, World Bank
Chapters II, III, IV, V, X, XI, XII
mail.beaconhill.org/~j_haughton/HandbookPovIneq.pdf
UNDP: Handbook on Poverty Statistics
Chapters III, VIII
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/poverty/Chapters.htm
Alkire-Foster: Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement, OPHI working paper series n.7 May 2008
SAM (Social Accounting Matrix) macro approach
Social Accounting Matrices: a basis for planning (Pyatt-Round eds)
Chapters: Introduction, I, VIII
http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1999/12/02/000178830_98101901520228/Rendered/PDF/multi_page.pdf
IFPRI, Social Accounting Matrices and Multiplier Analysis: an Introduction with Exercises
Chapters I, II, III, IV
http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/sp5.pdf
The Impact of Economic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution: Evaluation Techniques and Tools (edited with Luiz Pereira da Silva), World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2003
Chapter XIV
http://www.pep-net.org/fileadmin/medias/pdf/chapter14.pdf
G.Pyatt, A SAM approach to modeling, Journal of Policy Modelling n. 3 1988