1 Introduction -- 2 Income distributions -- 3 The Lorenz curve and its variants -- 4 Welfare ranking of income distributions -- 5 Measurement of income inequality -- 6 Specifying poverty lines -- 7 Poverty measures -- 8 Multi-dimensional poverty -- 9 The concentration curves -- 10 Applications of concentration curves to economic analysis -- 11 Tax progressivity and redistribution effect of taxes -- 12 Normative measures of tax progressivity -- 13 Negative income tax plans -- 14 Targeting tools to evaluate social programs -- 15 Social price indices and inequality -- 16 Poverty price indices -- 17 Economic growth and poverty -- 18 Pro-poor growth
Summary
Economic Inequality and Poverty examines how methods for measuring inequality and poverty have evolved. Kakwani and Son draw on household surveys to demonstate a framework based on economic variables that can be applied to draw up evidence-based policies
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed August 14, 2023)
