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Inequality and the tails : the Palma Proposition and Ratio revisited

Cobham, Alex; Schlogl, Luke; Sumner, Andrew - 2015

This paper revisits the earlier assessments of the Palma Proposition and the ‘Palma Ratio’. The former is a proposition that currently changes in income or consumption inequality are (almost) exclusively due to changes in the share of the richest 10 per cent and poorest 40 per cent because...

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Prioritarianism and equality of opportunity

Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, … - 2021

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Redistribution, inequality, and efficiency with credit constraints : implications for South Africa

Getachew, Yoseph Yilma; Turnovsky, Stephen J. - In: Economic modelling 93 (2020), pp. 259-277

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Prioritarianism and equality of opportunity

Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, … - 2021

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Prioritarianism and equality of opportunity

Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, … - 2021

This paper asks whether prioritarianism - the view that social welfare orderings should give explicit priority to the worse-off - is consistent with the normative theory of equality of opportunity. We show that there are inherent tensions between some of the axioms underpinning prioritarianism...

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Inclusive growth : when may we expect it? ; when may we not?

Sen, Kunal - In: Asian development review 31 (2014) 1, pp. 136-162

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Chapter 12 Inequality, poverty and welfare

Dutta, Bhaskar - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 1, (pp. 597-633). 2002

This chapter is concerned with issues arising from the construction of ethical measures of inequality and poverty. The … recent literature on measurement of inequality and poverty emphasizes the close connection between social welfare functions … and ethical indices of inequality and poverty. This chapter surveys the main issues in this literature. In particular, we …

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