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Introduction
Ranjan Ray
Introduction
S. Subramanian
Setting the Stage: Types of Measures and Alternative Notions of Development
Asis Banerjee
Introduction
Satya Chakravarty
Introduction
Debdatta Saha
Specification and Estimation of Demographic Demand Systems, Equivalence Scales with Selective Empirical Evidence
Ranjan Ray
‘Instrumentalism’ and Friedman’s Methodology: A Short Objection
S. Subramanian
Ethically Flexible Measures of Poverty
Satya Chakravarty
Food Processing: Understanding Common Threads
Debdatta Saha
A Sort of Paretian Liberalism
S. Subramanian
On Shorrocks’ Reinvestigation of the Sen Poverty Index
Satya Chakravarty
Liberty, Equality, and Impossibility: Some General Results in the Space of ‘Soft’ Preferences
S. Subramanian
A New Index of Poverty
Satya Chakravarty
Alternative Approaches to Measurement of Price Movements
Ranjan Ray
Reference Groups and the Poverty Line: An Axiomatic Approach with an Empirical Illustration
Satya Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, Joseph Deutsh, Zoya Nissanov and Jacques Silber
The Arrow Paradox with Fuzzy Preferences
S. Subramanian
Toward an Inequality-Sensitive Measure of Development: The Unidimensional Case
Asis Banerjee
Identifying Trajectories in Food Processing
Debdatta Saha
Equality, Priority, and Distributional Judgements
S. Subramanian
Poverty and Time
Walter Bossert, Satya Chakravarty and Conchita D’Ambrosio
Role of Prices in Welfare Comparisons
Ranjan Ray
Two Logical and Normative Issues Relating to Measurement in the Social Sciences
S. Subramanian
Social Groups and Economic Poverty: A Problem in Measurement
S. Subramanian
Food Processing: The Bihar Trajectory
Debdatta Saha
The Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty
François Bourguignon and Satya Chakravarty
Unidimensional Development Ranking and Fuzzy Lorenz Dominance
Asis Banerjee
Selected Empirical Studies on Prices and Their Welfare Applications
Ranjan Ray
Reckoning Inter-group Poverty Differentials in the Measurement of Aggregate Poverty
S. Subramanian
Illustrative Applications of Unidimensional Development Indices
Asis Banerjee
A Family of Unit Consistent Multidimensional Poverty Indices
Satya Chakravarty and Conchita D’Ambrosio
Poverty Measurement in the Presence of a ‘Group-Affiliation’ Externality
S. Subramanian
Food Processing in Bihar: Industrial Ecosystem
Debdatta Saha
Spatial Differences in Prices in India, State Rankings and Inequality
Ranjan Ray
An Axiomatic Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement via Fuzzy Sets
Satya Chakravarty
Revisiting the Normalization Axiom in Poverty Measurement
S. Subramanian
Multidimensional Lorenz Dominance
Asis Banerjee
The Focus Axiom and Poverty: On the Coexistence of Precise Language and Ambiguous Meaning in Economic Measurement
S. Subramanian
Multidimensional Poverty Orderings: Theory and Applications
François Bourguignon and Satya Chakravarty
Food Processing in Bihar: Efficiency in Physical Costs
Debdatta Saha
Assessing Inequality in the Presence of Growth: An Expository Essay
S. Subramanian
Multidimensional Inequality-Sensitive Development Ranking
Asis Banerjee
The Measurement of Social Exclusion
Satya Chakravarty and Conchita D’Ambrosio
Optimal Commodity Taxes and Tax Reforms
Ranjan Ray
Revisiting an Old Theme in the Measurement of Inequality and Poverty
S. Subramanian
Inequality Measurement with Subgroup Decomposability and Level-Sensitivity
S. Subramanian
An Illustration: Multidimensional Development and Inter-State Inequality in India in the 2000s
Asis Banerjee
Multidimensional Poverty and Material Deprivation with Discrete Data
Walter Bossert, Satya Chakravarty and Conchita D’Ambrosio
Food Processing in Bihar: Entrepreneurial Perceptions
Debdatta Saha
Purchasing Power Parities and Their Role in International Comparisons
Ranjan Ray
Stochastic Dominance Relations for Integer Variables
Satya Chakravarty and Claudio Zoli
Overview and Concluding Remarks
Asis Banerjee
Multidimensional Indicators of Inequality and Poverty
Satya Chakravarty and Maria Ana Lugo
Comparing Lessons Across Trajectories
Debdatta Saha
Conclusion: Lessons From Bihar’s Food Processing
Debdatta Saha
Using PPPs in Calculation of Global and Regional Poverty Rates
Ranjan Ray
Multidimensional Deprivation: Comparison Within and Between Countries
Ranjan Ray
Dynamic Extensions of Multidimensional Poverty Measures with Selected Empirical Applications
Ranjan Ray
Food Consumption, Poverty, Hunger and Undernourishment
Ranjan Ray
Summary and Conclusion
Ranjan Ray
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