Overview
- Analyzes poverty and well-being, vulnerability to poverty, social exclusion, women's empowerment and smallholder efficiency in selected African countries
- Presents a multidimensional approach to studying women's empowerment in Ghana
- Examines the effect of climate variability on poverty and food security of rural Ethiopian households
- Implements both social and economic research to analyze levels of vulnerability in Rwandan and Ethiopian households to poverty
- Provides policy suggestions for the alleviation of poverty and promotion of well-being
Part of the book series: Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being (EIAP)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Measurement and Analysis of Well-Being and Vulnerability to Poverty
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Women Empowerment, Children’s Health, Caregiving and Access to Microfinance
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Dynamics and Determinants of Income and Efficiency Among Smallholders
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Pia Nilsson is an Assistant Professor in Economics at Jönköping University, affiliated to CEnSE (Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics). She has a Ph.D degree in economics from Jönköping University (2013). She has been editorial assistant for The Annals of Regional Science (2011- 2014), policy analyst at The Swedish Board of Agriculture (2012-2014) and visiting researcher at the Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg, School of Business, Economics and Law to pursue research in development economics, invited by Professor Måns Söderbom and mentored by Professor Arne Bigsten (2017). Her research interest is in the areas of urban, rural and regional economics and development economics.
Almas Heshmati is Professor of Economics at Jönköping University and Sogang University. He held similar positions at the Korea University, Seoul National University, University of Kurdistan Hawler, RATIO Institute (Sweden) and the MTT Agrifood Research Finland). He was Research Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economic Research (WIDER), The United Nations University during 2001-2004. From 1998 until 2001, he was an Associate Professor of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. He has a Ph.D. degree from the University of Gothenburg (1994), where he held a Senior Researcher position until 1998. His research interests include applied microeconomics, globalization, development strategy, efficiency, productivity and growth with application to manufacturing and services. In addition, to more than 150 scientific journal articles he has published books on EU Lisbon Process, Global Inequality, East Asian Manufacturing, Chinese Economy, technology Transfer, Information Technology, Water Resources, Landmines, Power Generation, Renewable Energy, Development Economics, World Values, Poverty and Economic Growth.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Efficiency, Equity and Well-Being in Selected African Countries
Editors: Pia Nilsson, Almas Heshmati
Series Title: Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11419-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-11418-3Published: 08 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-11419-0Published: 24 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2364-107X
Series E-ISSN: 2364-1088
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XL, 306
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: African Economics, Economic Policy, African Politics