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Handbook on Poverty + Inequality
The Handbook on Poverty and Inequality provides tools to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze poverty. It provides background materials for designing poverty reduction strategies. This book is intended for researchers and policy analysts involved in poverty research and policy making. The Handbook began as a series of notes to support training courses on poverty analysis and gradually grew into a 16-chapter book. Now the Handbook consists of explanatory text with numerous examples, interspersed with multiple-choice questions (to ensure active learning) and combined with extensive practical exercises using Stata statistical software. The Handbook has been thoroughly tested. The World Bank Institute has used most of the chapters in training workshops in countries throughout the world, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Botswana, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, the Lao People?s Democratic Republic, Malawi, Pakistan, the Philippines, Tanzania, and Thailand, as well as in distance courses with substantial numbers of participants from numerous countries in Asia (in 2002) and Africa (in 2003), and online asynchronous courses with more than 200 participants worldwide (in 2007 and 2008). The feedback from these courses has been very useful in helping us create a handbook that balances rigor with accessibility and practicality. The Handbook has also been used in university courses related to poverty. The Handbook is designed to be accessible to people with a university-level background in science or social sciences. It treats the material at a Master?s-degree level, with an emphasis on intuitive explanations and practical examples. It also provides the skills needed to be able to work on poverty analysis straightaway, and gives a solid foundation for those headed toward a research career in the subject. With sufficient self-discipline, it is possible to master the material in the Handbook without a formal course, by working through all the Stata-based exercises in detail and by taking advantage of the multiple-choice questions at the end of the chapters. But in our experience, most people find it easier to commit themselves to a structured training course?10 intensive days suffice?whether face-to-face or Preface online. Either route should prepare one well to undertake relatively sophisticated poverty analyses. In preparing the Handbook, we have drawn heavily on the extensive and excellent work by Martin Ravallion of the World Bank?s Development Research Group; the discussion in the World Bank?s World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty; as well as background papers or presentations by Kevin Carey, Shaohua Chen, and Zeynep Orhun; and contributions from Jos? Ramon (?Toots?) Albert, Kathleen Beegle, Nidhiya Menon and Celia Reyes. Zeynep Orhun thoroughly reviewed the first 10 chapters, and Peter Lanjouw gave us very useful comments. Hussain Samad, Changqing Sun, and Ngo Viet Phuong contributed to the preparation of the Stata exercises, and Lassana Cissokho helped with the bibliographic work. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all for their contributions. We are deeply indebted to Roumeen Islam for her encouragement and support throughout the development of the book. We also thank Denise Bergeron, Stephen McGroarty, and Dina Towbin for editorial assistance, and Dulce Afzal and Maxine Pineda for support toward the production of the book. Questions, comments, and suggestions related to the Handbook are most welcome, because they allow us to improve the Handbook as we update and extend it; they should be directed to Shahidur Khandker at skhandker@worldbank.org. Our goal is to increase the capacity to undertake poverty analysis everywhere. We hope that the Handbook represents a useful step in this direction.
Ketersediaan
| Call Number | Location | Available |
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| Tan 339. 460 727 Hau h | PSB lt.dasar - Pascasarjana | 1 |
| Penerbit | Washington The World Bank., 2009 |
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| Edisi | - |
| Subjek | Poverty?Statistical methods Poverty?Econometric models Equality? Economic aspects? Econometric models. |
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