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Kaldor-Hicks improvements

Kaldor-Hicks improvements is the plural of Kaldor-Hicks improvement.

Meaning of Kaldor-Hicks improvement

Noun

Kaldor-Hicks improvement (plural Kaldor-Hicks improvements)

  1. An economic reallocation of resources among people, such that those who are made better off could hypothetically compensate those who are made worse off and lead to a Pareto-improving outcome.

Questions about Kaldor-Hicks improvements

What is Kaldor-Hicks improvements the plural of?
Kaldor-Hicks improvements is the plural of Kaldor-Hicks improvement.

Words near Kaldor-Hicks improvements in the dictionary

  1. Kaldor
  2. Kaldor-Hicks criterion
  3. Kaldor-Hicks efficiency
  4. Kaldor-Hicks efficient
  5. Kaldor-Hicks improvement
  6. Kaldor-Hicks improvements
  7. Kaldorian
  8. Kaldors
  9. kalduny
  10. kale
  11. kale runt

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