Economic Inequality and Group Welfare: A Theory of Comparison with Application to BangladeshEconomic theories relating to economic disparity and group welfare comparisons and its application to economic conditions in Bangladesh from 1963 to 1974 - discusses theories of income distribution, inequality, poverty, national income, etc.; and develops a statistical method for the calculation of a poverty line. Bibliography and graphs. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Real National Income | 8 |
Income Inequality and Social Welfare | 35 |
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actual Appendix Tables approach assumed assumption Atkinson index axiom Bangladesh calories carbohydrates Chapter commodity comparison of inequality concept of poverty consumed Consumption Distribution criterion current price incomes defined denoted derived estimated evaluated Gini coefficient given groups ha(e hetero-ordinal higher welfare homo-ordinal hpr(e income configurations income distribution indifference curves individual intake function interpretation intersectoral level of income Lorenz curve Lorenz equation market prices mean income measure of inequality minimum Mishan named goods vectors normalized distribution number of poor nutrient nutritional ordinal correspondence point of view population poverty line price indices principle of ordinal problem proportion protein r(xª rank-order weighting ranking real income comparison real national income relevant sample satisfy secondary poverty shadow prices social preference social welfare function survey theory of real tion total income urban sector V₁ value judgements welfare comparison welfare economics xap and xbp