{"product_id":"analyzing-multidimensional-wellbeing-9781119256908","title":"Analyzing Multidimensional WellBeing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn indispensable reference for all researchers interested in the measurement of social \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ewelfare. . .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrançois Bourguignon, Emeritus Professor at Paris School of Economics, Former Chief Economist of the World Bank.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e. . .a detailed, insightful, and pedagogical presentation of the theoretical grounds of multidimensional well-being, inequality, and poverty measurement. Any student, researcher, and practitioner interested in the multidimensional approach should begin their journey into such a fascinating theme with this wonderful book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrançois Maniquet, Professor, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Review of the Multidimensional Approaches to the Measurement of Welfare, Inequality, and Poverty\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnalyzing Multidimensional Well-Being: A Quantitative Approach \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a comprehensive approach to the measurement of well-being that includes characteristics such as income, health, literacy, and housing. The author presents a \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEndorsements xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Well-Being as a Multidimensional Phenomenon 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Introduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 Income as a Dimension ofWell-Being and Some Related Aggregations 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 Scales of Measurement: A Brief Exposition 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 Preliminaries for MultidimensionalWelfare Analysis 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5 The Dashboard Approach andWeights on DimensionalMetrics in a Composite Index 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6 MultidimensionalWelfare Function Axioms 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6.1 Invariance Axioms 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6.2 Distributional Axioms 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.7 MultidimensionalWelfare Functions 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.8 Concluding Remarks 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 An Overview of Multidimensional Economic Inequality 49\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Introduction 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 A Review of One-DimensionalMeasurement 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2.1 Normative One-Dimensional Inequality Indices 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2.2 Subgroup-Decomposable Indices of Inequality 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Multidimensional Inequality Indices 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3.1 The Direct Approach 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3.1.1 Axioms for a Multidimensional Inequality Index 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3.1.2 Examples of Indices 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3.2 The Inclusive Measure ofWell-being Approach 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 Concluding Remarks 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 A Synthesis of Multidimensional Poverty 85\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Introduction 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 A Brief Review of One-Dimensional Analysis 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Preliminaries for Multidimensional Poverty Analysis 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 Identification of the Poor and Deprivation Counting 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5 Axioms for a Multidimensional Poverty Metric 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5.1 Invariance Axioms 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5.2 Distributional Axioms 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5.3 Decomposability Axioms 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5.4 Threshold Limit Sensitivity Axiom 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5.5 Technical Axioms 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6 Multidimensional Poverty Measurement 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6.1 The Dashboard Approach 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6.2 The Direct Approach 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6.3 The Inclusive Measure ofWell-being Approach 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.7 Multidimensional Poverty Orderings 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.7.1 A Brief Outline of One-Dimensional Orderings 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.7.2 Multidimensional Orderings 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.8 Dimensions ofWell-Being with Ordinal Significance and Multidimensional Poverty 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.9 Orderings Based on Deprivations Counts 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.10 Multidimensional Material Deprivation 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.11 Concluding Remarks 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Fuzzy Set Approaches to the Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty 163\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Introduction 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Fuzzy Membership Function 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 Axioms for a Fuzzy Multidimensional Poverty Index 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.1 Invariance Axioms 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.1.1 Fuzzy Strong Ratio Scale Invariance 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.1.2 Fuzzy Strong Translation Scale Invariance 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.1.3 FuzzyWeak Focus 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.1.4 Fuzzy Strong Focus 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.1.5 Fuzzy Symmetry 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.1.6 Fuzzy Population Replication Invariance 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.2 Distributional Axioms 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.2.1 Fuzzy Monotonicity 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.2.2 Fuzzy Monotonicity Sensitivity 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.2.3 Fuzzy DimensionalMonotonicity 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.2.4 Fuzzy Transfer 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.2.5 Increasing Fuzzy Poverty under Correlation-Increasing Switch 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.3 Decomposability Axioms 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.3.1 Fuzzy Subgroup Decomposability 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.3.2 Fuzzy Factor Decomposability 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.4 Fuzzy Sensitivity Axiom 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.4.1 Increasing Fuzzy Poverty for Increased Membership Function 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.5 Technical Axioms 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.5.1 Fuzzy Boundedness 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.5.2 Fuzzy Continuity 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 Fuzzy Multidimensional Poverty Indices 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5 Fuzzy Poverty Orderings 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.6 Concluding Remarks 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Poverty and Time: A Multidimensional Appraisal 201\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Introduction 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 Preliminaries 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 The Block Approach 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3.1 IndividualMultidimensional Intertemporal Poverty Index 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3.2 Aggregate Multidimensional 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251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 A Review of One-DimensionalMeasurement 254\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 Multidimensional Representation of Vulnerability to Poverty: An Axiomatic Investigation 262\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4 Concluding Remarks 269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 271\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 An Exploration of Some Composite and Individualistic Indices 277\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 Introduction 277\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Human Development Index 278\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 Human Poverty Index 284\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4 Gender Inequality Index 286\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5 Better Life Index 288\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.6 Active Citizenship Composite Index 291\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.7 Measuring Human Opportunity: A Counting Approach 293\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.8 Assessment of Progress toward Achievements in Millennium Development Goals 295\u003c\/p\u003e 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