Measuring development : an inequality dominance approach / Asis Kumar Banerjee.
This book discusses how to measure the level of development of an economy, particularly, the task of ranking economies in terms of their development. In this context, development is defined as an increase in peoples level of wellbeing. The book emphasises that wellbeing is a multidimensional concept...
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| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
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2020.
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| Series: | Themes in economics (Springer (Firm)).
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2020 English/International |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Towards an Inequality-Sensitive Measure of Development: The Unidimensional Case
- Chapter 3: Unidimensional Development Ranking and Fuzzy Lorenz Dominance
- Chapter 4: Illustrative Applications of Unidimensional Development Indices
- Chapter 5: Multidimensional Lorenz dominance
- Chapter 6: Multidimensional Inequality-Sensitive Development Ranking
- Chapter 7: An Illustration: Multidimensional Development and Inter-State Inequality in India in the 2000s
- Chapter 8: Overview and Concluding Remarks.