TY - BOOK ID - 11278898 TI - Measuring poverty and inequality : theory and practice PY - 2013 SN - 0821384619 0821398644 PB - Washington, D.C. : World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Urban poor -- Developing countries. KW - Poverty KW - Equality KW - Business & Economics KW - Economic History KW - Poverty. KW - Equality. KW - Egalitarianism KW - Inequality KW - Social equality KW - Social inequality KW - Destitution KW - Political science KW - Sociology KW - Democracy KW - Liberty KW - Wealth KW - Basic needs KW - Begging KW - Poor KW - Subsistence economy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11278898 AB - A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality: Theory and Practice is an introduction to the theory and practice of measuring poverty and inequality, as well as a user's guide for analyzing income or consumption distribution for any standard household dataset using the World Bank's ADePT software. The approach taken here considers income standards as building blocks for basic measurement, then uses them to construct inequality and poverty measures. This unified approach provides advantages in interpreting and contrasting the measures and in understanding the way measures vary over time ER -