Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement (Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being)

Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement (Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being)
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Год
 
Страниц
 
279
ISBN
 
0387342494
Издатель
 
Thomson
Категория
 
Малый Бизнес

Содержание:

Пролог, Падение Камелота, Библиография, Иллюстрации

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Recent theoretical and empirical studies have concluded that in order to be accurate, poverty and deprivation must be measured within a multidimensional framework that is consistent, efficient, and statistically robust. The fuzzy sets approach to poverty measurement was developed in the early 1990s and continues to be refined by scholars of economics and sociology who find the traditional "monetary-only" indicators to be inadequate and arbitrary. This volume brings together advanced thinking on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, including the theoretical background, applications to cross-sections using contemporary European examples, and longitudinal aspects of multidimensional fuzzy poverty analysis that pay particular attention to the transitory, or impermanent, conditions that often occur during transitions to market economies. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers and will be a useful text on poverty for advanced students in...

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