, written with Jànos Barta, gives an excellent impression of Fisher's great contributions to the theory of the price index on … with respect to price index theory since Fisher's death fifty years ago. "This is a highly instructive book on both the … history and theory of measurement in economics. It is rather a rich source of interesting properties of more or less well …

Lebensqualitätsmessung -- Der SF-36 Health Survey -- Der EQ-5D der EuroQol-Gruppe -- Der Health Utility Index (HUI) -- Qualität und Akzeptanz …

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 … variation, co-integration, vector autoregression, the panel data technique and the adaptation index to climate change, to …

logic and core elements of China's poverty alleviation theory, and taking the Chinese experience of poverty alleviation …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 …

The study of inequality, polarization and poverty is crucial for understanding the economic well-being of the …

for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual?s welfare …

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 poverty in a sustainable way …

This book is written in light of the latest developments in the field of multidimensional poverty measurement. It …