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Cover -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List Of Figures -- List Of Tables -- List Of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Scope And Limitations -- 1.2 Theories Of Size Distribution Of Income: A Brief Review -- 1.3 Lorenz Curve And Its Variants -- 1.4 Social Welfare Ranking Of Income Distribution -- 1.5 Measures Of Income Inequality -- 1.6 Identification Of The Poor -- 1.7 Aggregate Poverty Measures -- 1.8 Multidimensional Poverty -- 1.9 Relationships Among The Distributions Of Economic Variables -- 1.10 Application Of Concentration Curves To Economic Analysis 1.11 Tax Progressivity And Redistributive Effect Of Taxation -- 1.12 Normative Measures Of Tax Progressivity And Redistributive Effects -- 1.13 Negative Income Tax Plans -- 1.14 Social Welfare Programs -- 1.15 Social Price Indices And Inequality -- 1.16 Impact Of Prices On Poverty -- 1.17 Economic Growth And Poverty -- 1.18 Pro-poor Growth And Poverty Reduction -- 1.19 Summarizing The Main Contributions Of The Book -- 2 Income Distributions -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Basic Concepts Of Income Distribution Functions -- 2.3 Normal Distribution -- 2.4 The Pareto Law 2.5 Generation Of Income Distribution: Champernowne's Model -- 2.6 The Pareto-levy Law -- 2.7 Family Of Distribution Functions Satisfying The Weak Pareto Law -- 2.8 Champernowne's Distribution -- 2.9 Laws Of Income Distribution Violating The Weak Pareto Law -- 2.10 Concluding Remarks -- 3 The Lorenz Curve And Its Variants -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Definition Of The Lorenz Curve -- 3.3 Lorenz Curve For Well-known Distribution Functions -- 3.4 Direct Approaches To Specifying The Lorenz Curve -- 3.5 Some Useful Lemmas -- 3.6 Symmetric Lorenz Curve 3.7 Economic Development And Skewness Of The Lorenz Curve -- 3.8 Intercountry Comparison Of Skewness Of Lorenz Curve -- 3.9 Relative And Absolute Inequality -- 3.10 Variants Of The Lorenz Curve -- 3.11 Comparison Of Inequality: China Versus India -- 3.12 Concluding Remarks -- 4 Welfare Rankin