Social Welfare Functions and Development

Nanak Kawkani was Professor of Economics for 30 years at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and until 2006 was Principal Researcher and Director at UNDP’s International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth in Brazil. He was an elected fellow of the Australian Research Committee of Social Science, and has been awarded the Mahalanobis gold medal for outstanding contribution in quantitative economics. He has published over 100 articles in international journals, as well as four books. Hyun Hwa Son is Principal Evaluation Specialist in the Independent Evaluation Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Philippines, having previously worked as a poverty economist at the United Nations Development Programme. She has held an academic position at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and published extensively on poverty, inequality, pro-poor growth, inclusive growth, education and health.                  

Foreward-. Preface-. Chapter 1: Introduction-. Chapter 2: Applied Social Welfare Functions-. Chapter 3: Measuring Social Tension-. Chapter 4: Relative Deprivation and Social Groups-. Chapter 5: Growth and Shared Prosperity-. Chapter 6: Income Inequality and Social Well-Being-. Chapter 7: Measuring Equity in Opportunity Using Social Opportunity Function-. Chapter 8: Global Poverty Counts-. Chapter 9: Measuring Food Insecurity: Global Estimates-. Chapter 10: Social Rate of Return: A New Tool for Evaluating Social Programs.