Abstract
This paper treats the index of social welfare change developed by Ahluwalia and Chenery. Some discussions of the methodology of this index conclude that the rate of change in GNP is a flawed measure of change in social welfare since it is biased against the poor. It is argued on the contrary that this conclusion is based on an improperly specified opportunity cost of favoring one income group over another in the design of development policy.
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