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How Can Economists Help Human Rights Practitioners to Measure Changes in Economic Inequalities?

This chapter discusses the measurement of economic inequality with the aim of furthering the discussion and potential cooperation between economists and human rights scholars and practitioners. It discusses how to measure economic inequality in the most useful way for the purpose of monitoring progress towards the goal of ensuring dignity and human rights for all. This builds on the work of many other economists (see Atkinson 2015 for a comprehensive review) to seek common ground in understanding the measurement of economic inequality, to be relevant for purposes of policymaking, and discusses new work by economists that improves the measurement of income and wealth, including of the richest. Reddy (2011) argued that economics and human rights approaches can be complementary if …

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