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.

Rebecca M. Blank offers the first comprehensive analysis of an economic trend that has been reshaping the United States over the past three decades: rapidly rising income inequality. In clear language, she provides an overview of how and why the level and distribution of income and wealth has...

This book joins four papers prepared in the framework of the Egypt inequality study financed by the World Bank. The first paper prepared by Sherine Al-Shawarby reviews the studies on inequality in Egypt since the 1950s with the double objective of illustrating the importance attributed to...

Twenty-First Century Inequality & Capitalism: Piketty, Marx and Beyond is a collection of critical essays on the economist's iconic 2014 book, from the perspective of critical theory, global political economy or public sociology, mostly drawn from the Marxist tradition.

Intro -- About De/G PRESS:Five Stars as a Rule -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- About the Series Editor -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Wealth Inequality: What Is It? Why Do We Care? -- Chapter 2: Growth and Development -- Chapter 3: The Rise of Entrepreneurship as an...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Section I Received Wisdom on Poverty, Inequality, and Growth -- Chapter 1 Overview: New Results on Poverty, Inequality, and the Growth in the Era of Globalization -- The Issues -- The Framework and the Data -- A Bird's Eye View -- A More...

Employing comparative and quantitative historical methods Frankema explores long run trends of asset and income distribution in Latin America, arguing that there is little reason to regard the yawning gap between rich and poor as the persistent result of a colonial heritage.

This book offers a non-technical analysis of inequality and income distribution. It considers the way that broad ideas about the meaning of inequality are translated into specific statistical tools and with the appropriateness of the assumptions used in the literature

Measuring and Promoting Wellbeing -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1. Economic Growth, Wellbeing and Protecting the Future: An Overview of the Castles Symposium -- Part One: The Role of Economics in Defining and Promoting Wellbeing -- 2. Economic Growth and Wellbeing: Ian Castles' Contribution --...

Research on Economic Inequality, volume 26, primarily contains papers presented at the 8th Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) meeting. The papers cover such topics as the effect of inheritance taxation on the "pre-distribution" of income, and tax progressivity under...