Titlebook: Inequality and Poverty; A Short Critical Int S. Subramanian Book 2019 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore P

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Inter-personal Versus Inter-group Inequality,olitical opposition to them, as constituting an affront to constitutional guarantees of inter-personal equality. The issue is explored briefly and analytically in the present chapter, which seeks to address the alleged conflict in terms of the distinction between ‘formal’ equality and ‘substantive’

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Economic Inequality in India and the World,lled relative measures. However, relative measures are no less arbitrary than ‘absolute’ measures, and ‘centrist’ or ‘intermediate’ measures which strike a compromise between the ‘extreme’ ethical values underlying relative and absolute measures commend themselves to consideration. We find that such

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,India’s Official Poverty Lines,n India have been determined. It is concluded that these procedures have tended to violate those aspects of logical and normative desirability that should underlie the construction of a reasonable poverty line, as argued in Chaps. . and .. As a consequence, logically unexceptionable variations of th

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Poverty Comparisons Across Populations of Different Sizes,roportion of the poor population in total population) or as an absolute number of those in poverty? It turns out, as this chapter demonstrates, that the question has a surprising amount of philosophical content in it. These questions of logic and normativity are explored briefly here—and shown to ha

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Do We Have an Obligation to Assist the Distant Needy?,poverty? Some have argued that we have no obligations in this matter; others, that we have a positive duty to assist the needy, and yet others that such a duty is enjoined on us whenever we have violated the negative duty of not visiting harm on others. These questions are addressed and elaborated o