Analyzing multidimensional well-being: a quantitative approach

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Endorsements""; ""Chapter 1 Wellâ#x80;#x90;Being as a Multidimensional Phenomenon""; ""1.1 Introduction""; ""1.2 Income as a Dimension of Wellâ#x80;#x90;Being and Some Related Aggregations""; ""1.3 Scales of Measurement: A Brief Exposition""; ""1.4 Preliminaries for Multidimensional Welfare Analysis""; ""1.5 The Dashboard Approach and Weights on Dimensional Metrics in a Composite Index""; ""1.6 Multidimensional Welfare Function Axioms""; ""1.6.1 Invariance Axioms""; ""1.6.2 Distributional Axioms

"Cover" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright" -- "Dedication" -- "Contents" -- "Preface" -- "Endorsements" -- "Chapter 1 Well‐Being as a Multidimensional Phenomenon" -- "1.1 Introduction" -- "1.2 Income as a Dimension of Well‐Being and Some Related Aggregations" -- "1.3 Scales of Measurement: A Brief Exposition" -- "1.4 Preliminaries for Multidimensional Welfare Analysis" -- "1.5 The Dashboard Approach and Weights on Dimensional Metrics in a Composite Index" -- "1.6 Multidimensional Welfare Function Axioms" -- "1.6.1 Invariance Axioms" -- "1.6.2 Distributional Axioms" -- "1.7 Multidimensional Welfare Functions" -- "1.8 Concluding Remarks" -- "References" -- "Chapter 2 An Overview of Multidimensional Economic Inequality" -- "2.1 Introduction" -- "2.2 A Review of One‐Dimensional Measurement" -- "2.2.1 Normative One‐Dimensional Inequality Indices" -- "2.2.2 Subgroup‐Decomposable Indices of Inequality" -- "2.3 Multidimensional Inequality Indices" -- "2.3.1 The Direct Approach" -- "2.3.1.1 Axioms for a Multidimensional Inequality Index" -- "2.3.1.2 Examples of Indices" -- "2.3.2 The Inclusive Measure of Well‐being Approach" -- "2.4 Concluding Remarks" -- "References" -- "Chapter 3 A Synthesis of Multidimensional Poverty" -- "3.1 Introduction" -- "3.2 A Brief Review of One‐Dimensional Analysis" -- "3.3 Preliminaries for Multidimensional Poverty Analysis" -- "3.4 Identification of the Poor and Deprivation Counting" -- "3.5 Axioms for a Multidimensional Poverty Metric" -- "3.5.1 Invariance Axioms" -- "3.5.2 Distributional Axioms" -- "3.5.3 Decomposability Axioms" -- "3.5.4 Threshold Limit Sensitivity Axiom" -- "3.5.5 Technical Axioms" -- "3.6 Multidimensional Poverty Measurement" -- "3.6.1 The Dashboard Approach" -- "3.6.2 The Direct Approach" -- "3.6.3 The Inclusive Measure of Well‐being Approach" -- "3.7 Multidimensional Poverty Orderings