Economic Inequality and Poverty: Facts, Methods, and Policies

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Nanak Kakwani (Visiting Professor of Economics, Visiting Professor of Economics, China Institute for Income Distribution at Beijing Normal University) Hyun H. Son (Principal Evaluation Specialist, Principal Evaluation Specialist, Asian Development Bank)

Economic Inequality and Poverty

Facts, Methods, and Policies

Nanak Kakwani (Visiting Professor of Economics, Visiting Professor of Economics, China Institute for Income Distribution at Beijing Normal University), Hyun H. Son (Principal Evaluation Specialist, Principal Evaluation Specialist, Asian Development Bank)

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Oxford University Press
07 July 2022

Poverty & unemployment; Macroeconomics; Economic growth; Development economics; Welfare economics

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 identifying approaches to resolving some of the methodological and factual conflicts. The books primary aim is to analyse the relationships between individuals and households distributions of economic variables. These relationships are crucial in understanding many economic phenomena. Kakwani and Son employ household surveys to illustrate the application of their framework, demonstrating its importance in drawing evidence-based policy conclusions.

By: Nanak Kakwani (Visiting Professor of Economics Visiting Professor of Economics China Institute for Income Distribution at Beijing Normal University), Hyun H. Son (Principal Evaluation Specialist, Principal Evaluation Specialist, Asian Development Bank)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 179mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198852841
ISBN 10: 0198852843
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 07 July 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: Introduction 2: Income Distributions 3: The Lorenz Curve and its Variants 4: Welfare Ranking of Income Distributions 5: Measurement of Income Inequality 6: Specifying Poverty Lines 7: Poverty Measures 8: Multi-dimensional Poverty 9: The Concentration Curves 10: Applications of Concentration Curves to Economic Analysis 11: Tax Progressivity and Redistribution Effect of Taxes 12: Normative Measures of Tax Progressivity 13: Negative Income Tax Plans 14: Targeting Tools to Evaluate Social Programs 15: Social Price Indices and Inequality 16: Poverty Price Indices 17: Economic Growth and Poverty 18: Pro-poor Growth

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 19702000. 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.

Reviews for Economic Inequality and Poverty: Facts, Methods, and Policies

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 *