Planning Techniques for Social Justice

Erik Thorbecke

Chapter 4 in The Balance between Industry and Agriculture in Economic Development, 1989, pp 45-71 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract As broad and ambitious a title as that of the present paper needs to be appropriately circumscribed. In Section 2 social justice is equated with poverty alleviation as estimated by a class of poverty measures sensitive to a (variable) relative deprivation concept of poverty. Given the degree of poverty aversion specified exogenously by the policy-maker, budgetary rules for poverty alleviation are presented which show how a given budget should be allocated among different socioeconomic groups – assuming a static framework and no economic interaction among groups.

Keywords: Poverty Line; Socioeconomic Group; Poverty Alleviation; Poverty Measure; Planning Technique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10268-6_4

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