Poverty, Social Exclusion and Stochastic Dominance

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Chakravarty, Satya R. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Themes in Economics, Theory, Empirics, and Policy
• Subjects: Welfare economics.; Development economics.; Poverty.; Welfare state.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy.; Development Economics.; Development Aid.; Politics of the Welfare State.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

This book honors the memory of Tony Atkinson, who made significant contributions to the rigorous study of income inequality, poverty, and redistribution. These essays presented, covering a span of over 30 years of research and scholarship, have been at the forefront of distributional analysis, and m...

Table of Contents:

• Ethically Flexible Measures Of Poverty
• On Shorrocks' Reinvestigation Of The Sen Poverty Index
• A New Index Of Poverty
• Reference Groups And The Poverty Line: An Axiomatic Approach With An Empirical Illustration
• Poverty And Time
• The Measurement Of Multidimensional Poverty
• A Family Of Unit Consistent Multidimensional Poverty Indices
• An Axiomatic Approach To Multidimensional Poverty Measurement Via Fuzzy Sets
• Multidimensional Poverty Orderings: Theory And Applications
• The Measurement Of Social Exclusion
• Multidimensional Poverty And Material Deprivation With Discrete Data
• Stochastic Dominance Relations For Integer Variables
• Multidimensional Indicators Of Inequality And Poverty.