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Journal of Human Development and Capabilities
A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development
Volume 17, 2016 - Issue 3
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Book Symposium on Anthony B. Atkinson's Inequality: What Can Be Done?

Inequality and the Trade-off between Efficiency and Equity

 

About the Author

Erik Thorbecke is the H.E. Babcock Professor of Economics Emeritus and Graduate School and International Professor at Cornell University and one of the creators of the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) metric for measuring poverty.

Notes

1. See Thorbecke and Charumilind (Citation2002) for a fuller and detailed discussions of those channels and pathways through which inequality can dampen growth.

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