Living Standards Analytics

Living Standards Analytics
Author:
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2011-09-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781461403869

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Living Standards Analytics

Living Standards Analytics
Author: Dominique Haughton
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-10-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781461430001

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The purpose of this book is to introduce, discuss, illustrate, and evaluate the colorful palette of analytical techniques that can be applied to the analysis of household survey data, with an emphasis on the innovations of the past decade or so. Most of the chapters begin by introducing a methodological or policy problem, to motivate the subsequent discussion of relevant methods. They then summarize the relevant techniques, and draw on examples – many of them from the authors’ own work – and aim to convey a sense of the potential, but also the strengths and weaknesses, of those techniques. This book is meant for graduate students in statistics, economics, policy analysis, and social sciences, especially, but certainly not exclusively, those interested in the challenges of economic development in the Third World. Additionally, the book will be useful to academics and practitioners who work closely with survey data. This is a book that can serve as a reference work, to be taken down from the shelf and perused from time to time.

Living Standards Analytics

Living Standards Analytics
Author: Dominique Haughton
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2011-09-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1461403855

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The purpose of this book is to introduce, discuss, illustrate, and evaluate the colorful palette of analytical techniques that can be applied to the analysis of household survey data, with an emphasis on the innovations of the past decade or so. Most of the chapters begin by introducing a methodological or policy problem, to motivate the subsequent discussion of relevant methods. They then summarize the relevant techniques, and draw on examples – many of them from the authors’ own work – and aim to convey a sense of the potential, but also the strengths and weaknesses, of those techniques. This book is meant for graduate students in statistics, economics, policy analysis, and social sciences, especially, but certainly not exclusively, those interested in the challenges of economic development in the Third World. Additionally, the book will be useful to academics and practitioners who work closely with survey data. This is a book that can serve as a reference work, to be taken down from the shelf and perused from time to time.

The Analysis of Household Surveys

The Analysis of Household Surveys
Author: Angus Deaton
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780801852541

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Using data from several countries, including Cote d'Ivoire, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, and Thailand, this book analyzes household survey data from developing countries and illustrates how such data can be used to cast light on a range of short-term and long-term policy issues.

How Useful are Integrated Household Survey Data for Policy-oriented Analyses of Poverty?

How Useful are Integrated Household Survey Data for Policy-oriented Analyses of Poverty?
Author: Christiaan Grootaert
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1993
Genre: Encuestas hogares - Costa de Marfil
ISBN:

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Simpler and bigger are better, for household living standards surveys. And better collection of price data, in an independent survey, should be a priority.

Life Under Pressure

Life Under Pressure
Author: Tommy Bengtsson
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 547
Release: 2004-03-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0262025515

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This highly original book -- the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia -- pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using techniques of event history analysis, the authors examine 100,000 life histories in 100 rural communities in Western Europe and Asia to analyze the demographic response to social and economic pressures. In doing so they challenge the accepted Eurocentric Malthusian view of population processes and demonstrate that population behavior has not been as uniform as previously thought -- that it has often been determined by human agency, particularly social structure and cultural practice. The authors examine the complex relationship between human behavior and social and economic environment, analyzing age, gender, family, kinship, social class and social organization, climate, food prices, and real wages to compare mortality responses to adversity. Their research at the individual, household, and community levels challenges the previously accepted characterizations of social and economic behavior in Europe and Asia in the past. The originality of the analysis as well as the geographic breadth and historical depth of the data make Life Under Pressure a significant advance in the field of historical demography. Its findings will be of interest to scholars in economics, environmental studies, demography, history, and sociology as well as the general reader interested in these subjects.

South Asia's Hotspots

South Asia's Hotspots
Author: Muthukumara Mani
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2018-07-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1464811563

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South Asia is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Most previous studies have focused on the projected impacts of sea-level rise or extreme weather - droughts, floods, heatwaves and storm surges. This study adds to that knowledge by identifying the impacts of long-term changes in the climate †“ rising temperatures and changes in precipitation patterns †“ on living standards. It does so by first building an understanding of the relationship between current climate conditions and living standards across South Asia. The study also identifies the set of climate models that are best suited for projecting long-term changes in climate across South Asia. This novel understanding of living standards and climate change is then combined to project impacts of long-term changes in climate on living standards in South Asia. The study finds that higher temperatures will reduce living standards for most of South Asia, with the severity impacts depending on future global greenhouse gas emissions. The study projects “hotspots†?, which are locations where long-term changes in climate will have negative impacts on living standards. Many hotspots are in locations that hitherto have not been identified as particularly vulnerable to climate change. Moreover, hotspots have distinguishing features that vary from country to country. This detailed assessment provides a mosaic of information that enriches our understanding of how climate change will impact people and which populations are most vulnerable. The report also provides guidance on the kinds of actions are most likely to reduce impacts of climate change in each country. The study is a major contribution to our understanding of how increasing temperatures and changing precipitation patterns interact with social and economic structures at a fine granular level across South Asia.

Quality of Life and Living Standards Analysis

Quality of Life and Living Standards Analysis
Author: Sergey Artemyevich Aivazian
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2016-01-15
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3110316250

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This book is about the concept of “Quality of Life”. What is necessary for quality of life, and how can it be measured? The approach is a multicriterial scheme reduction which prevents as much information loss as possible when shifting from the set of partial criteria to their convolution. This book is written for researchers, analysts and graduate and postgraduate students of mathematics and economics.