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100			_aSubramanian S
245			_aRights, deprivation and disparity
260			_aNew Delhi _bOxford University Press _c2006
300			_a298p _cxiii
365			_bRs. 625
504			_aWelfare economics, social choice theory, distributional analysis, and poverty assessments are all important ingredients in pondering problems in concepts and measurement. This book is a collection of papers, written over the last twenty years or so, that deal with issues of social choice, rights, poverty, and inequality.
505			_aContents: Table of Figures; Abbreviations; Introduction: 1. Basic needs, positive freedom, and the possibility of rights-respecting social choice -- 2. The impossibility of a non-discriminating liberal : a liberty paradox without the pareto principle -- 3. The liberal paradox with fuzzy preferences -- 4. Preference motivations and libertarian dilemmas -- 5. A paretian liberal dilemma without collective rationality -- 6. On trading personal liberty -- 7. On a simple transfer-sensitive index of inequality -- 8. An elementary interpretation of the Gini inequality index -- 9. A re-scaled version of the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty indices based on all association with the minkowski distance function -- 10. Unravelling a conceptual muddle : India's poverty statistics in the light of basic demand theory -- 11. On measuring deprivation adjusted for group disparities / Manabi Majumdar -- 12. Aspects of global deprivation and disparity : a child's guide to some simple-minded arithmetic -- 13. Poverty measures and anti-poverty policy with an egalitarian constraint -- 14. Some simple analytics of poverty redress through direct income transfers and wage employment programmes : a review and commentary -- 15. Measuring literacy : some extensions of the Basu-Foster framework -- 16. A model of 'triadic' power relations in the inter-linkage of agrarian markets -- 17. Poverty minimization in the light of 'life-boat ethics' -- 18. Poverty measurement and theories of beneficence -- 19. Counting the poor : an elementary difficulty in the measurement of poverty -- 20. Fractions versus whole numbers : on headcount comparisons of poverty across variable populations -- Bibliography.
650			_a1. Poverty Alleviation Thoery2. Poverty Measures3. Anti-Poverty Policies4. Economic Development5. Social Evaluation
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