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Course: Economics III Level: Undergraduate Time: Currently not offered

Syllabus: Past Exams Syllabus: Poverty and Inequality: theory and empirics Topics from: Concept and measurement of inequality in incomes. Concentration of wealth. Intra-household inequal- ity Poverty, relatively speaking. Denition and measurement of poverty. Poverty and undernutrition. Trends in poverty and inequality in India. Reference Texts: 1. Measurement of Inequality and Poverty, Oxford University Press, 1997, by S Subramanian (ed). 2. Measuring Inequality by Frank Cowel. 3. On Economic Inequality by Amartya Sen. 4. Why Poverty Persists in India: A Framework for Understanding the Indian Economy. OUP Catalogue by Eswaran M., and A. Kotwal. 5. Growing public: Volume 1, the story: Social spending and economic growth since the eighteenth century by Lindert P.H. 6. The Haves and the Have-Nots: A brief and idiosyncratic history of global inequality by Milanovic B Top of the page Past Exams

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