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Book SynopsisThe issues surrounding poverty and inequality continue to be of central concern to academics, politicians and policy makers but the ways in which we seek to study and understand them continue to change over time. This accessible book seeks to provide a guide to some of the new approaches that have been developed in the light of international initiatives to reduce poverty and the notable changes in income inequality and poverty that have occurred across many western countries in recent years. These new approaches have to some degree been facilitated by the emergence of new techniques and a growing availability of data that enable cross national comparisons not only of income but also of measures of welfare such as educational achievement, nutritional status in developing countries and wealth and deprivation indicators in the developed world. Including specially commissioned research from a distinguished list of international authors, this volume makes a real contribution to the public d
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; 1. New Directions in the Analysis of Inequality and Poverty ; CONCEPTUAL ISSUES ; 2. Inequality is Bad for the Poor ; 3. Measurement of Income Distribution in Supranational Entities: The Case of the European Union ; 4. Beyond Conventional Measures of Income: Including Indirect Benefits and Taxes ; 5. Inequality Within the Household Reconsidered ; MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS ; 6. Inequality of Learning in Industrialised Countries ; 7. On the Multidimensionality of Poverty and Social Exclusion ; 8. Summarizing Multiple Deprivation Indicators ; 9. Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons with Discrete Indicators of Well-Being ; PUBLIC POLICY ; 10. A Guaranteed Income for Europe's Children? ; 11. The Impact of Minimum Wages on the Distribution of Earnings and Employment in the USA ; 12. Minimum Wages, Training, and the Distribution of Earnings ; 13. Government Debt and the Portfolios of the Rich
