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Policy Impacts on Inequality: Welfare Based Measures of Inequality - The Atkinson Index 

Year of publication 2005

Pages 15 p.

Author Bellù, L.G.;Liberati, P.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Series title EASYPol: Resources for policy making

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This tool illustrates one of the most popular welfare-based measures of inequality, the Atkinson Index. In particular, it discusses the foundations of this Index, in terms of social welfare specifications, and the concept of equally distributed equivalent income on which the measure is based. The use of this measure is then exemplified in a step-by step procedure and in a numerical example.

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