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We have, up to now, focussed mostly on measuring and comparing cardinal indices of poverty and equity. As discussed in Chapter 4, this has several expositional advantages. The greatest of these advantages is probably that of focussing on only one (or a few) numerical assessments of poverty and equity. It is then relatively straightforward to compare poverty and equity across distributions just by comparing the values of these cardinal indices. The conclusions arc then (seemingly) “clear-cut”.
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(2006). Distributive Dominance. In: Poverty and Equity. Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-33318-5_9
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