TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kanbur,Ravi
AU  - Kanbur,Ravi
AU  - Wagstaff,Adam
TI  - How Useful is Inequality of Opportunity as a Policy Construct?
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Equality of Opportunity
KW  - Equity and Development
KW  - Gender
KW  - Gender & Law
KW  - Health Monitoring & Evaluation
KW  - Health, Nutrition and Population
KW  - HOI
KW  - Human Opportunity Index
KW  - Human Rights
KW  - Income Inequality
KW  - Law and Development
KW  - Moral Intuition
KW  - Policy Institutions
KW  - Poverty Impact Evaluation
KW  - Poverty Reduction
N2  - The academic literature on equality of opportunity has burgeoned. The concepts and measures have begun to be used by policy institutions, including in specific sectors such as health and education. It is argued that one advantage of focusing on equality of opportunity is that policy makers are more responsive to that discourse than to equality of outcomes per se. This paper presents a critique of equality of opportunity in the policy context. Although the empirical analysis to which the literature has given rise is useful and is to be welcomed, current methods for quantifying and implementing the concept with a view to informing the policy discourse face a series of fundamental questions that remain unanswered. Without a full appreciation of these difficulties, the methods may prove to be misleading in the policy context
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-6980
ER  -