Assessing global poverty and inequality: Income, resources, and capabilities

Metaphilosophy

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 30-49

  Robeyns, Ingrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capabilities; Global justice; Income; Inequality; Poverty; Primary goods; Resources; Social activists; World bank

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644585397     PISSN: 00261068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9973.2005.00355.x     Document Type: Article

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