Poverty, Social Exclusion and Stochastic Dominance

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Relates to Atkinsons work by using the notions of the equally distributed equivalent income, the constant-elasticity-of-marginal-utility social welfare function, the multidimensionality of welfare, and poverty and inequality measures Addresses the concerns relating to poverty, social exclusion and stochastic dominance Analyzes multidimensional poverty orderings by explicitly establishing their dependence on inter-dimensional association

Autorenportrait

Satya R. Chakravarty is a Professor of Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. He has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; University of Karlsruhe, Germany;  Paris School of Economics, Paris, France; Bocconi University, Milan, Italy;  Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan;  Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Japan; Bar-Ilan University, Israel, Chinese University of Hong Kong  and University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China. His areas of research interest are welfare issues, cooperative game theory, industrial organization, and mathematical finance. He has publications in leading Theoretical and Applied journals such as Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, Econometrica, Economic Theory, Journal of Development Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, International Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, Mathematical Social Sciences, Theory and Decision, Economics Letters, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Economic Inequality, Health Economics, and Review of Income and Wealth as well as in books by leading publishers. He has published books with several leading publishers in varied areas encompassing Welfare issues, Game Theory, Industrial Organization, Mathematical Finance and Microeconomics. He currently serves on editorial boards of Social Choice and Welfare, Journal of Economic Inequality and Review of Income and Wealth.  He worked as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank;  as an advisor to the National Council of Social Policy Evaluation, Mexico;  and  has been associated in various capacities with the World Bank, the UN Environment Program and the UNDP. He was awarded the Mahalanobis memorial prize by the Indian Econometric Society in 1994 and is a fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association.

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