Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Towards an Inequality-Sensitive Measure of Development: The Unidimensional Case -- Chapter 3: Unidimensional Development Ranking and Fuzzy Lorenz Dominance -- Chapter 4: Illustrative Applications of Unidimensional Development Indices -- Chapter 5:...

Asks and answers the question: What are the economic conditions a society must satisfy in order to exist and survive? Focusing on macro factors to understand the problem of poor countries, this book also offers a presentation of economic history in a world perspective, using survival-conditions...