Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1: Plan of the chapter
1.2: Types of measures
1.3: Alternative notions of development
1.4: Choice of functionings, their observable indicators and relative weights
1.5: A dominance approach
1.6: Conclusion: Chapter summary and a preview of the rest of the book
Chapter 2: Towards an Inequality-Sensitive Measure of Development:
The Unidimensional Case
2.1: Introduction to the chapter
2.2: Measuring inequality
2.3: Back to the measurement of development
2.4: Concluding remarks
Chapter 3: Unidimensional Development Ranking and Fuzzy Lorenz
Dominance
3.1: Introduction to the chapter
3.2: Fixed mean comparisons
3.3: The general case: Variable mean income
3.4: Conclusion
Chapter 4: Illustrative Applications of Unidimensional Development Indices
4.1: Introduction to the chapter
4.2: Household consumption expenditure in India
4.3: Household wealth in India
4.4: An international cross-section perspective: Household wealth in BRICS
countries
4.5: Conclusion
Chapter 5: Multidimensional Lorenz dominance
5.1: Introduction to the chapter
5.2: Notations, definitions etc.
5.3: Candidate Lorenz dominance elations
5.4: A class of multidimensional Lorenz dominance relations
5.5: Conclusion
Chapter 6: Multidimensional Inequality-Sensitive Development Ranking
6.1: Introduction to the chapter
6.2: Notations
6.3: Conditions on a multidimensional inequality-sensitive development index
6.3.1: Non-equity conditions
6.3.2: Equity conditions
6.4: Development ranking
6.5: Incompleteness revisited: A partial solution
6.6: Conclusion
Appendix to Chapter 6: Multidimensional Inequality Indices:
A Unifying Approach
6.A.1: Normatively significant multidimensional inequality indices
6.A.2: Multidimensional versions of specific unidimensional inequality indices
6.A.2(a): Multidimensional Gini index
6.A.2(b): Multidimensional coefficient of variation and multidimensional
generalised entropy indices
6.A.2(c): Other multidimensional inequality indices
6.A.3: Conclusion
Chapter 7: An Illustration: Multidimensional Development and Inter-State
Inequality in India in the 2000s
7.1: Introduction to the chapter
7.2: Units of observation: The states of India
7.3: The dimensions
7.4: What do we expect a priori?
7.5: The data
7.6: Development ranking
7.7: Conclusion
Chapter 8: Overview and Concluding Remarks
8.1: Overview
8.2: Other ranking rules
8.2.1: Human Development Index
8.2.2: Better Life Index
8.2.3: Some other indices in the academic literature
8.3: Conclusion