Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/63408 
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Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Research Paper No. 2005/62
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This note points to certain similarities of orientation and outcome between Derek Parfit’s quest for a theory of beneficence and Amartya Sen’s quest for a suitable realvalued representation of poverty. It suggests that both projects, in a certain sense, have been instructive failures. Using Sen’s own work, the note also suggests a logically natural way of dealing with some of the problems in poverty measurement reviewed in it—but only to reject this way out on other compelling grounds. – quantity ; quality ; inequality ; identification ; aggregation
JEL: 
I32
ISBN: 
9291907464
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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