. Besides exploring cross-country variation in public education, how its low level can lead to a poverty trap and how its high …

expanded in a consistent way to any welfare measure;and can be assessed for reliability usingstandard statistical theory …

technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain households are poverty trapped, that the initial distribution of wealth …

There is a vast literature on the selection of an appropriate index of income inequality and on what desirable … properties such a measure (or index) should contain. The Gini index is, of course, the most popular. There is a concurrent … Pareto distribution. But these income distribution functions (IDFs) continue to be described with a single index (such as the …

Power index research has been a very active field in the last decades. Will this continue or are all the important …