This text addresses the understanding and alleviation of poverty, inequality, and inequity using a unique and broad mix of concepts, measurement methods, statistical tools, software, and practical exercises. Most of the book's measurement and statistical tools have been programmed in DAD, a well established and widely available free software program that has been tailored especially for income distribution analysis and is used by scholars, researchers, and analysts in nearly 100 countries worldwide. It requires basic understanding of calculus and statistics. There are examples and exercises using real data, and throughout the treatment of the subject is quantitative and rigorous.

Examples and exercises use real data Unified treatment of poverty and equity Quantitative and rigorous

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Conceptual and Methodological Issues.- Well-Being and Poverty.- The Empirical Measurement of Well-Being.- Measuring Poverty and Equity.- and Notation.- Measuring Inequality and Social Welfare.- Measuring Poverty.- Estimating Poverty Lines.- Measuring Progressivity and Vertical Equity.- Horizontal Equity, Reranking and Redistribution.- Ordinal Comparisons of Poverty and Equity.- Distributive Dominance.- Poverty Dominance.- Welfare and Inequality Dominance.- Poverty and Equity: Policy and Growth.- Poverty Alleviation: Policy and Growth.- Targeting in the Presence of Redistributive Costs.- Estimation and Inference for Distributive Analysis.- An Introduction to DAD: A Software for Distributive Analysis.- Non-Parametric Estimation in DAD.- Estimation and Statistical Inference.- Statistical Inference in Practice.- Exercises.- Exercises.