Economic Inequality and Poverty
Facts, Methods, and Policies
$215.26
- Hardcover
544 pages
- Release Date
6 July 2022
Summary
Issues of economic inequality and poverty have become increasingly central to public debate over the past fifty years. The literature on measuring economic inequality and poverty has vastly expanded, developing many new methods but also generating many controversies.
Economic Inequality and Poverty provides a systematic treatment of the development of inequality and poverty, focusing on how income inequality and poverty measurements have evolved in recent decades and identify…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198852841 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198852843 |
| Author: | Nanak Kakwani, Hyun H. Son |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 6 July 2022 |
| Weight: | 1.10kg |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 179mm x 254mm |
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Critics Review
This is an outstanding research volume for researchers who want to have a deeper understanding of up-to-date issues in the income inequality and poverty measurement research. I highly recommend it. * Elena Bárcena, The Journal of Economic Inequality *
This book is essentially a ‘how to’ guide for applied researchers studying income inequality and poverty, presenting a variety of relevant concepts and measures and providing a number of examples of their application. ..there is much to like about the book, which provides a useful catalogue of important concepts and measures and can therefore be a valuable part of that tool kit. * Roger Wilkins, Economic Record *
Nanak Kakwani
Nanak Kakwani is a Distinguished Fellow of the Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation in India. He was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Research Committee of Social Science and awarded the Mahalanobis gold medal for outstanding quantitative economics contributions. His well-known Kakwani Index has been a standard measure for progressivity in taxation and other social science. Nanak Kakwani has been Visiting Professor of Economics at the China Institute for Income Distribution at Beijing Normal University since 2017. He was a Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Econometrics at the University of New South Wales in Sydney during 1970-2000. He was Chief Economist and Director of the United Nations Development Programmes International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth in Brazil from 2004 to 2006.
Hyun H. Son is a principal evaluation specialist in the Independent Evaluation Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Before joining ADB in March 2007, she was a poverty specialist at the United Nations Development Programme. She also worked for the World Bank in Washington D.C. and taught at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of New South Wales and a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University.
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