This book reviews the fulfillment of two Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), namely poverty and inequality, in the Indian subcontinent. It examines the complex interplay among development, inequality and poverty in relation to corruption, environmental resource management, agricultural...

This study systematically investigates the development process, major characteristics and weak links of China's poverty alleviation experience, and conducts a comparative analysis of poverty alleviation cases. It also accurately presents the internal logic and core elements of China's poverty...

Measuring Multi-dimensional Well-being and Deprivation with Discrete Ordinal Data -- Feasible Shared Destiny Risk Distributions -- Fuzzy Inequality Ranking Relations and their Crisp Approximations -- On pro-middle Class Growth -- Inequalities and Identities -- A Generalization of the Theil...

Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen?s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual?s welfare should not be measured in terms of her income, but in terms...

The study of inequality, polarization and poverty is crucial for understanding the economic well-being of the population of a country. Conceptual and methodological advances and better data have provided better insights into these issues in recent years, and it is the objective of the book to...

This book tackles the disagreements that affect those looking to establish the macroeconomic policies needed to halve poverty over the next ten years. It presents a pro-poor macroeconomic policy allowing countries to recapture policy space, help promote growth, reduce inequality and diminish...

This book is written in light of the latest developments in the field of multidimensional poverty measurement. It includes clear presentations of more than a dozen different quantitative techniques and provides empirical illustrations based on data sources from developed or developing countries