Inequality, Poverty and Well-being

by McGillivray, Mark

• ISBN13: 9781403987525
• ISBN10: 1403987521
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-14
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

With more than a billion people living on less than one dollar per day, some evidence of increasing gaps in living conditions within and between countries and the clear evidence of substantial declines in life expectancy or other health outcomes in some parts of the world, the related topics of inequality, poverty and well-being are core international issues. More is known about inequality, poverty and well-being than ever before as a result of conceptual and methodological advances and better data. Yet many debates persist and numerous important questions remain unanswered. This book examines inequality, poverty and well-being concepts and corresponding empirical measures. Attempting to push future research in new and important directions, the book has a strong analytical orientation, consisting of a mix of conceptual and empirical analyses that constitute new and innovative contributions to the research literature.

Author Biography

MARK MCGILLIVRAY is 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. As a development economist, he conducts research on development and effectiveness, aid allocation and inter-country well-being.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	viii
Acknowledgements	x
Notes on the Contributors	xi
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms	xiii
1 Inequality, Poverty and Well-being	1	(7)
Mark McGillivray
2 Population Ethics and the Value of Life	8	(14)
Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson
3 A Non-welfarist Approach to Inequality Measurement	22	(44)
Alain Chateauneuf and Patrick Moyes
4 Relative Deprivation, Personal Income Satisfaction and Average Well-being under Different Income Distributions: An Experimental Investigation	66	(25)
Christian Seidl, Stefan Traub and Andrea Morone
5 Contradictory Trends in Global Income Inequality: A Tale of Two Biases	91	(32)
Steve Dowrick and Muhammad Akmal
6 The Many Facets of Economic Mobility	123	(20)
Gary S. Fields
7 Social Groups and Economic Poverty: A Problem in Measurement	143	(19)
S. Subramanian
8 Intersociety Literacy Comparisons	162	(15)
Satya R. Chakravarty and Amita Majumder
9 The Human Development Index Adjusted for Efficient Resource Utilization	177	(17)
F.J. Arcelus, Basu Sharma and G. Srinivasan
10 A Framework for Incorporating Environmental Indicators in the Measurement of Human Well-Being	194	(14)
Osman Zaim
11 Measuring Non-economic Well-being Achievement	208	(33)
Mark McGillivray
Index	241