Chakravarty Inequality, Polarization and Poverty

Advances in Distributional Analysis
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-387-79253-8
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 6, 182 Seiten

Reihe: Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chakravarty, Satya R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;7
2;Contents;9
3;The Measurement of Income Inequality;11
3.1;1.1 Introduction;11
3.2;1.2 Preliminaries;12
3.3;1.3 Welfare Evaluation of Income Distributions;14
3.4;1.4 Stochastic Dominance;22
3.5;1.5 Postulates for an Index of Inequality;25
3.6;1.6 Relative Inequality andWelfare;32
3.6.1;1.6.1 The Dalton Approach;32
3.6.2;1.6.2 The Atkinson Approach;33
3.6.3;1.6.3 The Atkinson-Kolm-Sen and the Shorrocks Approaches;34
3.7;1.7 Relative Inequality as an Ordinal Concept;42
3.8;1.8 Absolute Inequality andWelfare;43
3.8.1;1.8.1 The Kolm Approach;43
3.8.2;1.8.2 The Blackorby-Donaldson-Kolm Approach;44
3.9;1.9 Decomposable Indices of Inequality;46
3.10;1.10 Measurement of InequalityWhen Needs Differ;52
4;Inequality and Income Poverty;57
4.1;2.1 Introduction;57
4.2;2.2 Axioms for an Index of Income Poverty;59
4.3;2.3 Poverty Indices;67
4.3.1;2.3.1 The Classical Indices;67
4.3.2;2.3.2 The Sen Index;68
4.3.3;2.3.3 Some Alternatives and Variants of the Sen Index;69
4.3.4;2.3.4 Subgroup Decomposable Poverty Indices;74
4.3.5;2.3.5 Absolute Indices of Poverty;77
4.4;2.4 Population Growth and Poverty;78
4.5;2.5 Poverty Orderings;81
4.6;2.6 Unit Consistent Poverty Indices;87
4.7;2.7 Measuring Chronic Poverty;89
5;Measuring Income Deprivation;95
5.1;3.1 Introduction;95
5.2;3.2 Deprivation and Satisfaction;97
5.3;3.3 Absolute and Relative Income Differentials and Deprivation;109
5.4;3.4 Complaints and Deprivation;111
6;The Measurement of Income Polarization;115
6.1;4.1 Introduction;115
6.2;4.2 Polarization: Two Views, Axioms and Indices;116
6.3;4.3 A New Compromise Bipolarization Index, its Properties, and Characterization;125
6.4;4.4 Bipolarization Dominance;127
7;The Measurement of Multidimensional Inequality;133
7.1;5.1 Introduction;133
7.2;5.2 Postulates for an Index of Multidimensional Inequality;134
7.3;5.3 Normative Multidimensional Inequality Indices;136
7.4;5.4 Multidimensional Generalized Entropy Indices of Inequality;141
7.5;5.5 Correlation Increasing Switch and Multidimensional Inequality;142
7.6;5.6 Multidimensional Inequality and the Measurement of Occupational Segregation;145
8;The Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty;149
8.1;6.1 Introduction;149
8.2;6.2 Postulates for an Index of Multidimensional Poverty;150
8.3;6.3 Indices of Multidimensional Poverty;153
8.4;6.4 Multidimensional Poverty Orderings;159
9;Extended Bibliography;161
10;Glossary of Notation;181
11;Index;183