Inter-group Disparities in the Distributional Analysis of Human Development: Concepts, Measurement, and Illustrative Applications

Review of Black Political Economy

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-52

  Subramanian, Sreenivasan ^a  

^a MADRAS INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (India)

Author keywords

Asymmetry of access; Binary group comparisons of distributions; Externality and group inequality; Group disparity adjusted welfare; Group inequality; Inequality decomposition; Relative disadvantage

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951704066     PISSN: 00346446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12114-010-9060-4     Document Type: Article

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