Combines methodological contributions in a variety of applied welfare topics with empirical analysis of micro data at household level from various countries designed to provide useful policy insights Brings together a collection of essays that share an interest in distributive issues, namely, inequality, multidimensional deprivation and poverty Documents the shift in literature on prices from an exclusively macro topic featuring inflation studies and cross country comparisons to a micro theory based analysis of household behavior with special reference to the role of relative prices in movements in inequality and poverty

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Ranjan Ray is a Professor of economics at Monash University, Australia. Prior to this, he was Lecturer in Econometrics (1979-89) at the University of Manchester, UK, Professor of Public Economics (1989-95) at the Delhi School of Economics and the Professor and Head of the Department of Economics (1995-2008) at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He has also held visiting positions at the University of British Columbia, Canada, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy and Cornell University, USA. He has taught and researched in a wide range of areas. His papers have a shared focus on methodological advancement, empirical investigation and welfare based policy application.

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Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Alternative Approaches to Measurement of Price Movements.- Chapter 3 Welfare Applications of Concepts Used in Price Measurement.- Chapter 4 Selected Empirical Studies on Prices and their Welfare Applications.- Chapter 5 Calculation of National and Subnational PPPs.- Chapter 6 Using PPPs in Calculation of Global and Regional Poverty Rates.- Chapter 7 Multidimensional Poverty Measurement- Methodology and Selected Empirical Applications.- Chapter 8 Dynamic Extensions of Multidimensional Poverty Measure with Selected Empirical Applications.- Chapter 9 Selected Service Delivery Schemes in India.- Chapter 10 Summary and Conclusion.