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There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While
that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities …

What do we mean by inequality comparisons? If the rich just get richer and the poor get
poorer, the answer might seem easy. But what if the income distribution changes in a …

This fully updated third edition is devoted to the analysis of various Stochastic Dominance
(SD) decision rules. It discusses the pros and cons of each of the alternate SD rules, the …

While Stochastic Dominance has been employed in various forms as early as 1932, it has
only been since 1969–1970 that the notion has been developed and extensively employed …

We derive the asymptotic sampling distribution of various estimators frequently used to order
distributions in terms of poverty, welfare, and inequality. This includes estimators of most of …

Initiated by Esteban and Ray (1991, 1994), Foster and Wolfson (1992) and Wolfson (1994),
there has been a recent upsurge of interest in the measurement of polarization 1 and in the …

Poverty comparisons-such as whether poverty has increased, or where it is greatest, are
typically clouded in conceptual and methodological uncertainties. How should individual …

The publication of this book is in large part due to the role of Canada's Inter national
Development Research Center (IDRC) in encouraging policy-relevant research in the fields …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews probability distributions that have been and can be
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