TY - BOOK AU - ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Inequality, Polarization and Poverty: Advances in Distributional Analysis T2 - Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being SN - 9780387792538 AV - HB139-141 U1 - 330.015195 23 PY - 2009/// CY - New York, NY PB - Springer New York KW - Economics KW - Statistics KW - Development Economics KW - Econometrics KW - Economics/Management Science KW - Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance N1 - The Measurement of Income Inequality -- Inequality and Income Poverty -- Measuring Income Deprivation -- The Measurement of Income Polarization -- The Measurement of Multidimensional Inequality -- The Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty; ZDB-2-SBE N2 - The study of inequality, polarization and poverty is crucial for understanding the economic well-being of the population of a country. Conceptual and methodological advances and better data have provided better insights into these issues in recent years, and it is the objective of the book to present a systematic and up-to-date treatment of the developments in the subject. Both welfare theoretic and descriptive approaches are discussed and, since the wellbeing of a population depends on income and non-income indicators, both unidimensional and multidimensional frameworks are taken into consideration. The technical terms and mathematical operations employed to analyze the results are explained intuitively in non-technical terms, and numerical analyses and graphical representations help to illustrate important concepts UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79253-8 ER -