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Inequality changes and income growth are two of the most important issues which concern economic policy-makers. Evaluation of these two economic phenomena is, accordingly, a central problem in the field of applied welfare economics. Indeed it is the issue of prime concern in the literature on the social welfare approach to inequality measurement.
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Amiel, Y., Cowell, F.A. (1994). Inequality Changes and Income Growth. In: Eichhorn, W. (eds) Models and Measurement of Welfare and Inequality. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79037-9_1
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