Lectures on Inequality, Poverty and Welfare

• Main Author: Villar, Antonio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 685
• Subjects: Medical research.; Economic theory.; Welfare economics.; Public finance.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Quality of life.; Welfare state.; Economics.; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Public Economics.; Quality of Life Research.; Politics of the Welfare State.

These lectures aim to help readers understand the logics and nature of the main indicators of inequality and poverty, with special attention to their social welfare underpinnings. The key approach consists in linking inequality and poverty measurement with welfare evaluation. As concern for inequali...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part i: Inequality
• Inequality indices
• Positive inequality indices
• Normative inequality indices
• Inequality of opportunity
• Inequality and welfare
• Part ii: Poverty
• Poverty measurement
• Multidimensional poverty and welfare
• The evaluation of relative achievements.