Unlike aversion to inequality, aversion to poverty resists formalization in welfare economics. One way to assign … valued welfare measure. It proposes a lexicographic L*-ordering, where the first rank criterion corresponds to an inequality …

This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed … (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care about inequality, and to hold that we should be concerned with …

I use a dynamic microsimulation model to analyse the distributional effects of an expansion of education in Côte d … debate in this country. Various hypotheses concerning the evolution of returns to education and labour demand are tested. The … direct effects between education and income as well as the different transmission channels, such as occupational choices …

This paper deals with poverty, health, education and human deprivation among Indian States. Human development evaluates … poverty, health, education lead the poor to indulge in the vicious circle. Uplifting the poor from these deprivations is …