- Title Pages
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Why Economics Needs Ethical Theory -
Chapter 2 The Sen System of Social Evaluation -
Chapter 3 The Good Life and the Good Economy* -
Chapter 4 The Adaptation Problem, Evolution and Normative Economics* -
Chapter 5 Rights and Interests -
Chapter 6 Elements of a Theory of the Right to Development* -
Chapter 7 Rational Choice on General Domains* -
Chapter 8 Some Remarks on the Ranking of Infinite Utility Streams* -
Chapter 9 Individual Choices in a Non‐Consequentialist Framework* -
Chapter 10 The Method of Majority Decision and Rationality Conditions* -
Chapter 11 Convexity and Separability in Representing Consensus -
Chapter 12 Rights, Individual Preferences and Collective Rationality -
Chapter 13 Irrelevant Alternatives -
Chapter 14 Limited Rights and Social Choice Rules* -
Chapter 15 Dominance Criteria for Critical‐Level Generalized Utilitarianism* -
Chapter 16 The Measurement of Capabilities* -
Chapter 17 On Ultrapoverty* -
Chapter 18 Multidimensional Poverty Orderings* -
Chapter 19 External Capabilities* -
Chapter 20 On the Welfarist Rationale for Relative Poverty Lines* -
Chapter 21 Justice as Fairness and the Capability Approach* -
Chapter 22 Ungrouping Income Distributions -
Chapter 23 A Practical Proposal for Simplifying the Measurement of Income Poverty* -
Chapter 24 Concepts and Measures of Agency* -
Chapter 25 Sen's Identities -
Chapter 26 Welfare Economics and Giving for Development* -
Chapter 27 Equity and Sharing the Cost of a Public Project* -
Chapter 28 Isolation, Assurance and Rules* -
Chapter 29 Simple Formulae for Optimal Income Taxation and the Measurement of Inequality* - Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
On Ultrapoverty *
On Ultrapoverty *
- Chapter:
- (p.311) Chapter 17 On Ultrapoverty*
- Source:
- Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen
- Author(s):
Sudhir Anand (Contributor Webpage)
Christopher Harris
Oliver Linton
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Lipton (1983) defined an individual to be ‘ultrapoor’ if and only if: (i) his calorie intake falls below 0.8 of the intake appropriate for his age, sex, and activity group; and (ii) his foodshare exceeds 0.8. of the appropriate foodshare. This chapter evaluates Lipton's concept of ultrapoverty. This is done by relating it to the well-established welfare indicator ‘total expenditure’, on the one hand, and to a wide range of housing and other non-monetary indicators on the other. The chapter agues that: (i) while calorie intake does contain important poverty information, it contains less poverty information than total expenditure; and (ii) foodshare contains very little poverty information. Hence, neither of the components of Lipton's double criterion is, on its own, a good criterion for poverty. It further argues that while the double 0.8 (or ‘double-eighty’) criterion may have some merits over each of its components, it is nonetheless inferior to a poverty criterion based simply on total expenditure. A particular feature of the analysis is the chapter's use of non-parametric methods to assess the local strength of the association between calorie intake and foodshare, respectively, against total expenditure.
Keywords: ultrapoverty, poverty, undernourishment, calorie intake, foodshare, double-eighty criterion, total expenditure per capita, welfare indicator, Lipton
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- Title Pages
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Why Economics Needs Ethical Theory -
Chapter 2 The Sen System of Social Evaluation -
Chapter 3 The Good Life and the Good Economy* -
Chapter 4 The Adaptation Problem, Evolution and Normative Economics* -
Chapter 5 Rights and Interests -
Chapter 6 Elements of a Theory of the Right to Development* -
Chapter 7 Rational Choice on General Domains* -
Chapter 8 Some Remarks on the Ranking of Infinite Utility Streams* -
Chapter 9 Individual Choices in a Non‐Consequentialist Framework* -
Chapter 10 The Method of Majority Decision and Rationality Conditions* -
Chapter 11 Convexity and Separability in Representing Consensus -
Chapter 12 Rights, Individual Preferences and Collective Rationality -
Chapter 13 Irrelevant Alternatives -
Chapter 14 Limited Rights and Social Choice Rules* -
Chapter 15 Dominance Criteria for Critical‐Level Generalized Utilitarianism* -
Chapter 16 The Measurement of Capabilities* -
Chapter 17 On Ultrapoverty* -
Chapter 18 Multidimensional Poverty Orderings* -
Chapter 19 External Capabilities* -
Chapter 20 On the Welfarist Rationale for Relative Poverty Lines* -
Chapter 21 Justice as Fairness and the Capability Approach* -
Chapter 22 Ungrouping Income Distributions -
Chapter 23 A Practical Proposal for Simplifying the Measurement of Income Poverty* -
Chapter 24 Concepts and Measures of Agency* -
Chapter 25 Sen's Identities -
Chapter 26 Welfare Economics and Giving for Development* -
Chapter 27 Equity and Sharing the Cost of a Public Project* -
Chapter 28 Isolation, Assurance and Rules* -
Chapter 29 Simple Formulae for Optimal Income Taxation and the Measurement of Inequality* - Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
