Measurement of Poverty, Undernutrition and Child Mortality.

• Author: Misselhorn, Mark, 1977-
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt am Main : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 2008.; ©2009.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Goettinger Studien zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (155)

Although the world has seen a strong increase in global incomes in the last two decades and consequently a decline in global poverty rates, the number of persons living in absolute poverty remains on unacceptably high levels. Besides rising incomes can not distract from the fact that resources to fi...

Table of Contents

• Cover
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Introduction and Overview
• 1 The Semi-Elasticity of Poverty Reduction
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Influence of Income and Distribution Changes
• 1.3 Growth Elasticity versus Semi-Elasticity
• 1.4 Empirical Results
• 1.5 Conclusion
• 2 Undernutrition and the Nutrition Transition
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Data
• 2.3 The new WHO Child Growth Standard
• 2.4 The Nutrition Transition
• 2.5 Results
• 2.5.1 The theoretical composition of the underweight indicator
• 2.5.2 The empirical composition of the underweight indicator
• 2.5.3 The Composition of Undernutrition across countries
• 2.5.4 Composition of Undernutrition across subgroups
• 2.5.5 Changes in Undernutrition over Time
• 2.6 Conclusion
• 3 A Regional Puzzle of Child Mortality and Undernutrition
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.1.1 Child Mortality and Undernutrition
• 3.1.2 The South Asia - Sub-Saharan Africa Enigma
• 3.2 Methodology
• 3.2.1 Multilevel Analysis
• 3.2.2 The Basic Multilevel Model
• 3.2.3 Model Specification
• 3.3 Empirical Analysis
• 3.3.1 Data Description
• 3.3.2 Descriptive Statistics
• 3.3.3 Regression Results
• 3.3.4 Simulations
• 3.4 Conclusion
• 4 A Human Development Index by Income Groups
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Methodology
• 4.2.1 General idea and overview
• 4.2.2 Imputing income for DHS households
• 4.2.3 Calculating the life expectancy index by income quintiles
• 4.2.4 Calculating the education index by income quintiles
• 4.2.5 Calculating the GDP index by income quintiles
• 4.2.6 Calculating the overall HDI and the HDI by income quintiles
• 4.2.7 Calculating the HDI by income quintiles for OECD countries
• 4.3 Illustrating sample of countries
• 4.4 Results
• 4.5 Limits of the approach
• 4.6 Conclusion
• Appendix B
• Appendix C
• Appendix D
• Bibliography.