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Cookie akzeptierenHyun Hwa Son / Nanak Kakwani
Social Welfare Functions and Development
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- 2016
- Gebunden
- 388 Seiten
- ISBN 9781137583246
Nanak Kakwani and Hyun Hwa Son make use of social welfare functions to derive indicators of development relevant to specific social objectives, such as poverty- and inequality-reduction. Arguing that the measurement of development cannot be value-free, the authors assert that if indicators of development are to have policy relevance, they must be assessed on the basis of the social objectives in question. This study develops indicators that are sensitive to both the level and the distribution of individuals¿ capabilities. The idea of the social welfare function, defined in income space, is extended to the concept of the social well-being function, defined in capability space. Through empirical
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