List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Inequality, Poverty and Well-being; M.McGillivray Population Ethics and the Value of Life; C.Blackorby, W.Bossert & D.Donaldson A Non-Welfarist Approach to Inequality Measurement; A.Chateauneuf & P.Moyes Relative Deprivation, Personal Income Satisfaction and Average Well-being under Different Income Distributions; An Experimental Investigation; C.Seidl, A.Morone & S.Traub Contradictory Trends in Global Income Inequality: A Tale of Two Biases; S.Dowrick & M.Akmal The Many Facets of Economic Mobility; G.S.Fields Social Groups and Economic Poverty: A Problem in Measurement; S.Subramanian Intersociety Literacy Comparisons; S.R.Chakravarty & A.Majumder The Human Development Index Adjusted for Efficient Resource Utilization; F.J.Arcelus, B.Sharma & G.Srinivasan A Framework for Incorporating Environmental Indicators to the Measurement of Human Well-Being; O.Zaim Measuring non-Economic Well-being Achievement; M.McGillivray Index
About the Author: MUHAMMAD AKMAL Economist, Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics, Australia F. J. ARCELUS Professor Emeritus, University of New Brunswick, Canada CHARLES BLACKORBY Professor of Economics, University of Warwick, UK WALTER BOSSERT Professor of Economics and CIREQ Research Fellow, University of Montreal, Canada SATYA R. CHAKRAVARTY Professor of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, India ALAIN CHATEAUNEUF Professor in Mathematics, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France DAVID DONALDSON Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of British Columbia, Canada STEVEN DOWRICK Professor of Economics, Australian National University, Australia GARY S. FIELDS Professor, Cornell University, USA AMITA MAJUMDER Professor of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, India ANDREA MORONE Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Bari, Italy PATRICK MOYES Director of Research, Center National de la Recherche Scientifique in Economics, France CHRISTIAN SEIDL Professor of Economics, University of Kiel, Germany BASU SHARMA Professor, University of New Brunswick, Canada G. SRINIVASAN Professor of Finance, University of New Brunswick, Canada S. SUBRAMANIAN Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies, India STEFAN TRAUB Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Kiel, Germany OSMAN ZAIM Associate Professor of Economics, Bilkent University, Turkey