Measuring Development: An Inequality Dominance Approach (Themes in Economics)

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements of Reproduction Permissions
Contents
About the Author
Abbreviations
1 Setting the Stage: Types of Measures and Alternative Notions of Development
	1.1 Plan of the Chapter
	1.2 Types of Measures
	1.3 Alternative Notions of Development
		1.3.1 Need for a Broad Notion of Development
		1.3.2 The Utilitarian View
		1.3.3 Preference-Based Approaches: A Dead End
		1.3.4 Justice as Fairness: The Rawls Approach
		1.3.5 Subjective Well-Being: Happiness and Related Issues
		1.3.6 Fair Allocations
		1.3.7 Basic Needs
		1.3.8 The Capability Approach: Functionings and Capabilities
	1.4 Choice of Functionings, Their Observable Indicators and Relative Weights
	1.5 A Dominance Approach
	1.6 Conclusion: Chapter Summary and Preview of the Rest of the Book
		1.6.1 Summary of Chapter 1
		1.6.2 A Preview of Subsequent Chapters
	References
2 Toward an Inequality-Sensitive Measure of Development: The Unidimensional Case
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 Measuring Inequality
		2.2.1 Conditions on Inequality Indices
		2.2.2 Examples of Inequality Indices
		2.2.3 Inequality Indices Derived from Development Indices
		2.2.4 Multiplicity of Inequality Indices and the Problem of Ranking Income Vectors in Terms of Inequality
		2.2.5 A Partial Solution: Lorenz Dominance
	2.3 Back to the Measurement of Development
		2.3.1 Inequality-Sensitive Development Indices: Three Problems
		2.3.2 The Atkinson Theorem
		2.3.3 Generalising the Utilitarian Framework
		2.3.4 A Non-Paretian Framework: Scale Monotonicity
	2.4 Conclusion
	References
3 Unidimensional Development Ranking and Fuzzy Lorenz Dominance
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Fixed Mean Comparisons
		3.2.1 Fuzzy Lorenz Dominance
		3.2.2 A Cardinal Approach
		3.2.3 An Ordinal Approach
	3.3 The General Case of Variable Mean Income
	3.4 Conclusion
	Appendix: Fuzzy Sets and Relations
	References
4 Illustrative Applications of Unidimensional Development Indices
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Household Consumption Expenditure in India
	4.3 Household Wealth in India
	4.4 An International Cross-Section Perspective: Household Wealth in BRICS Countries
	4.5 Conclusion
	References
5 Multidimensional Lorenz Dominance
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Notations, Definitions, etc.
	5.3 “Candidate” Lorenz Dominance Relations
	5.4 A Class of Multidimensional Lorenz Dominance Relations
	5.5 Conclusion
	References
6 Multidimensional Inequality-Sensitive Development Ranking
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Notations
	6.3 Conditions on a Multidimensional Inequality-Sensitive Development Index
		6.3.1 Non-equity Conditions
		6.3.2 Equity Conditions
	6.4 Development Ranking
	6.5 Incompleteness Revisited: A Partial Solution
	6.6 Conclusion
	Appendix: Multidimensional Inequality Indices: A Unifying Approach
		Normatively Significant Multidimensional Inequality Indices
		Multidimensional Versions of Specific Unidimensional Inequality Indices
		Multidimensional Coefficient of Variation and Multidimensional Generalised Entropy Inequality Indices
		Other Multidimensional Inequality Indices
	Conclusion
	References
7 An Illustration: Multidimensional Development and Inter-State Inequality in India in the 2000s
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Units of Observation: The States of India
	7.3 The Dimensions
	7.4 What Do We Expect a Priori?
	7.5 The Data
	7.6 India 2004–05 and 2010–11: Inequality Ranking and Development Ranking
	7.7 Conclusion
	References
8 Overview and Concluding Remarks
	8.1 Overview
	8.2 Other Ranking Rules
		8.2.1 The Human Development Index
		8.2.2 Better Life Index
		8.2.3 Some Other Indices in the Academic Literature
	8.3 Conclusion
	References
Index