This paper extends the previous literature on the ethical links between the measurement of poverty, social welfare and … inequality. We show inter alia, how, when the range of possible poverty lines is unbounded above, a robust ranking of absolute … poverty may be interpreted as a robust ranking of social welfare, and a robust ranking of relative poverty may be intepreted …

the theoretical polarization/conflict literature. The chapter distinguishes five types of polarization: income … polarization (where the polarizing variable of interest is any one-dimensional cardinal variable), income bipolarization (the … extent to which a population is polarized across two separate groups lying on either side of an income median), social …