On Literacy Rankings

Tapan Mitra

Working Papers from Cornell University, Center for Analytic Economics

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the issue of characterizing the situations in which all the literacy indices, consistent with a set of reasonable axioms, would provide the same ranking of societies. It is shown that a theory, analogous to that developed for the Lorenz order in the study of income inequality, can be obtained in the study of literacy, by extending the standard mathematical theory relating gauge functions to convex functions, and the theory of majorization.

JEL-codes: C60 D60 I20 I31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-11
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