Inequality and Poverty

S. Subramanian was a Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. An economist with research interests in poverty, inequality, demography, welfare economics, collective choice theory and development economics, he has published widely in professional journals, and is the author of (among other books) The Poverty Line (OUP, Delhi, 2012). He is an elected Fellow of the Human Development and Capabilities Association, and was a member of the Advisory Board of the World Bank’s Commission on Global Poverty.

• Chapter 1: The Intrinsic Bane of Inequality.- Chapter 2: The Instrumental Harms of Inequality.- Chapter 3: Distributive Justice and Utilitarianism.- Chapter 4: Distributive Justice and Welfare Economics.- Chapter 5: More on Distributive Justice and Welfare Economics.- Chapter 6: On the Conflict between Equity and Efficiency.- Chapter 7: Equality, Efficiency, and ‘Levelling Down’.- Chapter 8: Equality and Liberty.- Chapter 9: Inter-Personal versus Inter-Group Inequality.- Chapter 10: The Measurement of Economic Inequality.- Chapter 11: Economic Inequality in India and the World.- Chapter 12: The Language of the Poverty Line.- Chapter 13: The Logic of the Poverty Line.- Chapter 14: India’s Official Poverty Lines.- Chapter 15: Poverty Comparisons across Populations of Different Sizes.- Chapter 16: Targeting Assistance to the Poor.- Chapter 17: Do we have an Obligation to Assist the Distant Needy?.- Chapter 18: Poverty and Inclusive Growth in the Light of the Quintile Income Statistic.- Chapter 19: Deprivation in the Midst of Affluence.- Chapter 20: Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in India: Pulling the Threads Together.