[EQ] Inequality, Poverty and Well-being

Inequality, Poverty and Well-being

Mark McGillivray, a Senior Research Fellow at the World Institute for
Development Economics Research of the United Nations University in Helsinki,
Finland, and an Inaugural Fellow of the Human Development and Capabilities
Association

August 2006

Website: http://www.wider.unu.edu/

Sample chapter PDF [39p] at: http://www.palgrave.com/pdfs/1403987521.pdf

"...This book looks at advances in underlying inequality, poverty and
well-being concepts and corresponding empirical measures. It has an
analytical orientation, with a mix of conceptual and empirical papers that
constitute new and innovative contributions to the literature. ."

Contents

1 Inequality, Poverty and Well-being - Mark McGillivray

2 Population Ethics and the Value of Life - Charles Blackorby, Walter
Bossert and David Donaldson

3 A Non-welfarist Approach to Inequality Measurement - Alain Chateauneuf and
Patrick Moyes

4 Relative Deprivation, Personal Income Satisfaction and Average Well-being
under Different Income Distributions: An Experimental Investigation

  Christian Seidl, Stefan Traub and Andrea Morone

5 Contradictory Trends in Global Income Inequality: A Tale of Two Biases -
Steve Dowrick and Muhammad Akmal

6 The Many Facets of Economic Mobility - Gary S. Fields

7 Social Groups and Economic Poverty:A Problem in Measurement - S.
Subramanian

8 Intersociety Literacy Comparisons - Satya R. Chakravarty and Amita
Majumder

9 The Human Development Index Adjusted for Efficient Resource Utilization -
F.J. Arcelus, Basu Sharma and G. Srinivasan

10 A Framework for Incorporating Environmental Indicators in the Measurement
of Human Well-Being - Osman Zaim

11 Measuring Non-economic Well-being Achievement - Mark McGillivray

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