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Book SynopsisEconomic 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.
Trade ReviewThis is an outstanding research volume for researchers who want to have a deeper understanding of up-to-date issues in the income inequality and poverty measurement research. I highly recommend it. * Elena Bárcena, The Journal of Economic Inequality *
Table of Contents1: 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
