2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …

-left (2005-10). Income inequality diminished during the restoration of democracy, but started to grow steadily in the mid-1990s … reduction in labour income inequality and the introduction of noncontributory public transfers schemes. …

to the cases in which the mean income of the poor increases proportionally more than that of the non-poor. A new index is …

on the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency … of high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising … headcount measure of poverty as the dependent variable and the Gini coefficient and PPP-adjusted mean income as explanatory …

In this paper, we use the World Income Inequality Database to assess the main trends in inequality within countries … period of time. These trends are complemented with information for inequality in income and wealth from other sources, paying …

Natural disasters cause economic damages and may exacerbate disparities in income distribution among countries across …, implying that natural disasters may serve as a means of creative destruction. This effect is prominent among uppermiddle-income …

This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini … coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about two-thirds of global income inequality, but noticeably less - around …

standard economic indicators of income/consumption and wealth, the paper briefly reviews distributions of selected non …