Inter-group Disparities in the Distributional Analysis of Human Development
Concepts, Measurement, and Illustrative Applications
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10430583 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sreenivasan Subramanian (0000-0002-5019-2608, Madras Institute of Development Studies) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-52 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-08 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Black Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6446 • E-ISSN: 1936-4814 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12114-010-9060-4 |
| OpenAlex | W2013429149 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 40 |
An important feature of most segmented societies is that deprivations and well-being achievements are unequally distributed across well-defined sub-groups of the population, when the latter is partitioned according to a variety of social or geographical categories, such as gender, caste, ethnicity, religion, occupation, sector of origin, or region of domicile. Group disparities are a matter of both instrumental interest in assessing the nature of a society (such as in terms of its propensity for conflict) and intrinsic concern in evaluations of a society's record of ‘horizontal’ distributive justice. One aspect of a study of population heterogeneity would reside in the measurement of inter-group inequalities in the distribution of a society's burdens and benefits. It is this aspect of the problem that is reviewed in the present paper. It is useful to note that group inequality can be categorized into different types (which are nevertheless mutually linked by certain commonalities of purpose and motivation), and a particularly instructive taxonomy is available in a recent paper by Arjun Jayadev and Sanjay Reddy ('Inequalities and Identities’, which is available on the website of the Social Science Research Network, at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1162275 ). The present paper also presents taxonomy of alternative approaches to reckoning group inequality, and discusses a number of real-valued measures of group disparity, mainly based on work in which this author has earlier engaged, by himself or in collaboration
Caste · Distributive justice · Distributive property · Economic Justice · Economics · Ethnic group · Inequality · Political science · Population · Positive economics · Social group · Social science · Sociology · Taxonomy (biology · Variety (cybernetics · Agricultural risk and resilience · Anthropology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Demography · Ecology · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Mathematics · Psychology · Social and Economic Development in India · Social Psychology
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UNDP's Gender‐related Measures
Monitoring Inequality among Social Groups
Externality and Literacy
Capability Failure and Group Disparities
Horizontal Inequalities
On the Structure of Additive Inequality Measures
Inequality Decomposition by Population Subgroups
On the measurement of inequality
Adjusting Headcount Deprivation for Horizontal and Spatial Inequality
UNDP's Gender-Related Indices
The policy significance of inequality decompositions
Inequality and welfare evaluation of heterogeneous income distributions
Decomposition procedures for distributional analysis
Literacy and Intrahousehold Externalities
The inequality-adjusted human development index
Measuring literacy
Performance in living standards
Assessing the `femaleness' of a population
Generalized measures of literacy
Benchmarking the effective literacy rate
On Measuring Literacy
A Methodological Analysis of Segregation Indexes
Poverty Measurement in the Presence of a 'Group-Affiliation' Externality
Horizontal and Vertical Inequality
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
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| Citation span | 2015 - 2017 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |