Inequality, Poverty and Well-being

MARK MCGILLIVRAY is a Senior Research Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University in Helsinki, Finland, and an Inaugural Fellow of the Human Development and Capabilities Association. As a development economist, he conducts research on development aid effectiveness, aid allocation and inter-country well-being achievement.

• List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Inequality, Poverty and Well-being; M.McGillivray Population Ethics and the Value of Life; C.Blackorby, W.Bossert & D.Donaldson A Non-Welfarist Approach to Inequality Measurement; A.Chateauneuf & P.Moyes Relative Deprivation, Personal Income Satisfaction and Average Well-being under Different Income Distributions; An Experimental Investigation; C.Seidl, A.Morone & S.Traub Contradictory Trends in Global Income Inequality: A Tale of Two Biases; S.Dowrick & M.Akmal The Many Facets of Economic Mobility; G.S.Fields Social Groups and Economic Poverty: A Problem in Measurement; S.Subramanian Intersociety Literacy Comparisons; S.R.Chakravarty & A.Majumder The Human Development Index Adjusted for Efficient Resource Utilization; F.J.Arcelus, B.Sharma & G.Srinivasan A Framework for Incorporating Environmental Indicators to the Measurement of Human Well-Being; O.Zaim Measuring non-Economic Well-being Achievement; M.McGillivray Index

'Mark McGillivray conducts a very useful and sobering econometric exercise that allows him to compute the predictive value of a whole host of well-being indicators for the part of (composite) well-being not explained by per capita income...' - Arjan Verschoor, Journal of Development Studies 'Remarkable not just for tackling difficult conceptual and methodological issues but for [its] content, scope and coverage which touches upon most, if not all, of the central topics and emerging issues in well-being research highly recommended' - David A. Clark, Journal of Human Development