Inequality, Polarization and Poverty

Advances in Distributional Analysis

Satya R. Chakravarty (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

182 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4419-2716-3 (ISBN)

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This book provides a synthesis of some recent issues and an up-to-date treatment of some of the major important issues in distributional analysis that I have covered in my previous book Ethical Social Index Numbers, which was widely accepted by students, teachers, researchers and practitioners in the area. Wide coverage of on-going and advanced topics and their analytical, articulate and authoritative p- sentation make the book theoretically and methodologically quite contemporary and inclusive, and highly responsive to the practical problems of recent concern. Since many countries of the world are still characterized by high levels of income inequality, Chap. 1 analyzes the problems of income inequality measurement in detail. Poverty alleviation is an overriding goal of development and social policy. To formulate antipoverty policies, research on poverty has mostly focused on inco- based indices. In view of this, a substantive analysis of income-based poverty has been presented in Chap. 2. The subject of Chap. 3 is people’s perception about income inequality in terms of deprivation. Since polarization is of current concern to analysts and social decisi- makers, a discussion on polarization is presented in Chap. 4.

The Measurement of Income Inequality.- Inequality and Income Poverty.- Measuring Income Deprivation.- The Measurement of Income Polarization.- The Measurement of Multidimensional Inequality.- The Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.11.2010
Reihe/Serie	Economic Inequality and Poverty ; 6
Zusatzinfo	X, 182 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Ökonometrie
ISBN-10	1-4419-2716-6 / 1441927166
ISBN-13	978-1-4419-2716-3 / 9781441927163
Zustand	Neuware