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020 _a9780198067948 (hbk.)
020 _a0198067941 (hbk.)
035 _a(OCoLC)ocn646121295
040 _aUKM
_cUKM
_dBD-SySUS
082 0 4 _a338.9
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_bJAP
100 1 _aJayaraj, D.,
_cProf.
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245 1 0 _aPoverty, inequality, and population :
_bessays in development and applied measurement /
_cD. Jayaraj, S. Subramanian.
260 _aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_cc2010.
300 _axiii, 298 p. :
_bill. ;
_c22 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [284]-298).
505 0 _aOut of school and (probably) in work : child labour and capability deprivation in India -- Poverty-eradication through redistributive taxation : some elementary considerations -- Poverty and discrimination : measurement and evidence from rural India -- Horizontal and vertical inequality : some interconnections and indicators -- The distribution of household wealth in India -- Comparing the age structures of populations -- Assessing the 'agedness' of a population -- Assessing the 'femaleness' of a population -- Women's well-being and the sex ratio at birth : some suggestive evidence from India -- The well-being implications of a change in the sex-ratio of a population -- Manufacturing hysteria : on census-inspired 'nationalism' -- Abusing demography.
520 _aAddresses the ability to measure the categories of poverty, inequality, and population; the role of measurement in social explanation; and the philosophical bases of measurement-related judgments.
650 0 _aEconomic development.
_917243
650 0 _aEconomic development
_xSocial aspects.
_919165
650 0 _aPoverty
_zIndia.
_917950
650 0 _aEquality.
_917170
651 0 _aIndia
_xPopulation
_vStatistics.
_920520
700 1 _aSubramanian, S.
_c(Professor)
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942 _2ddc
_cBK
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