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.
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Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN-13
9780387792521
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95577440
Product Key Features
Author
Satya R. Chakravarty
Publication Name
Inequality, Polarization and Poverty: Advances in Distributional Analysis
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Economics, Government, Mathematics
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
182 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Volume
6
Item Weight
990g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Satya R. Chakravarty
Series Title
Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being