Inequality, Poverty and Well-Being

2006. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-4039-8752-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

Reihe: Studies in Development Economics and Policy

This book examines inequality, poverty and well-being concepts and corresponding empirical measures. Attempting to push future research in new and important directions, the book has a strong analytical orientation, consisting of a mix of conceptual and empirical analyses that constitute new and innovative contributions to the research literature.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

McGillivray, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Inequality, Poverty and Well-being; M.McGillivray Population Ethics and the Value of Life; C.Blackorby, W.Bossert & D.Donaldson A Non-Welfarist Approach to Inequality Measurement; A.Chateauneuf & P.Moyes Relative Deprivation, Personal Income Satisfaction and Average Well-being under Different Income Distributions; An Experimental Investigation; C.Seidl, A.Morone & S.Traub Contradictory Trends in Global Income Inequality: A Tale of Two Biases; S.Dowrick & M.Akmal The Many Facets of Economic Mobility; G.S.Fields Social Groups and Economic Poverty: A Problem in Measurement; S.Subramanian Intersociety Literacy Comparisons; S.R.Chakravarty & A.Majumder The Human Development Index Adjusted for Efficient Resource Utilization; F.J.Arcelus, B.Sharma & G.Srinivasan A Framework for Incorporating Environmental Indicators to the Measurement of Human Well-Being; O.Zaim Measuring non-Economic Well-being Achievement; M.McGillivray Index

Über Autor(innen)

MUHAMMAD AKMAL Economist, Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics, Australia
F. J. ARCELUS Professor Emeritus, University of New Brunswick, Canada
CHARLES BLACKORBY Professor of Economics, University of Warwick, UK
WALTER BOSSERT Professor of Economics and CIREQ Research Fellow, University of Montreal, Canada
SATYA R. CHAKRAVARTY Professor of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, India
ALAIN CHATEAUNEUF Professor in Mathematics, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
DAVID DONALDSON Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of British Columbia, Canada
STEVEN DOWRICK Professor of Economics, Australian National University, Australia
GARY S. FIELDS Professor, Cornell University, USA
AMITA MAJUMDER Professor of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, India
ANDREA MORONE Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Bari, Italy
PATRICK MOYES Director of Research, Center National de la Recherche Scientifique in Economics, France
CHRISTIAN SEIDL Professor of Economics, University of Kiel, Germany
BASU SHARMA Professor, University of New Brunswick, Canada
G. SRINIVASAN Professor of Finance, University of New Brunswick, Canada
S. SUBRAMANIAN Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies, India
STEFAN TRAUB Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Kiel, Germany
OSMAN ZAIM Associate Professor of Economics, Bilkent University, Turkey