Overview: Is introductory in scope, without being elementary or simplistic.Highlights the conceptual underpinnings of the subject, with specific reference to background philosophy, logic, facts and values.Addre.This book provides an entry into the subjects of disparity and deprivation, by attending to issues that have a bearing on certain salient philosophical and conceptual aspects of these subjects. The student doing a graduate course in the measurement of inequality and poverty is all too often plunged directly into the complexities of Schur-convex functions, dominance conditions, partial
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