Economic inequality and poverty : facts, methods, and policies / Nanak Kakwani, Hyun H. Son.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kakwani, Nanak, author.

Son, Hyun H., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution.

Poverty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (545 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

'Economic 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.

Contents:

Income distributions – The lorenz curve and its variants – Welfare ranking of income distributions – Measurement of income inequality – Specifying poverty lines – Poverty measures – Multidimensional poverty – Concentration curves – Applications of concentration curves to economic analysis 00 Tax progressivity and redistribution effect of taxes – Normative measure of tax progressivity – Negative income tax plans – Targeting tools to evaluate social programs – Social price indices and inequality – Poverty price indices – Economic growth and poverty – Pro-poor growth.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 7, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Kakwani, Nanak Economic Inequality and Poverty

ISBN:

0-19-259420-6

0-19-195526-4

0-19-259419-2