A natural way of viewing an inequality or a poverty measure is in terms of the vector distance between an actual …

between these two objectives. This volume shows how reforms can address the urgent issue of inequality without undermining …

This paper argues that there is no country in Latin America where we can confidently say that income inequality … increases in inequality among the first nine deciles. In the remaining 5, the reason is a greater concentration among the …, inequality has increased less in this region than in developed countries and in Eastern Europe. …

inequality measured in a conventional way is to a large extent an illusion created by differences in characteristics of the data … and on the particular ways in which the data is treated; b) Our ideas about the effect of inequality on economic growth …) Standard household surveys in LAC are unable to capture the incomes of the richest sectors of society; so, the inequality we …

This paper establishes the principles which should govern the welfare and inequality analysis of heterogeneous income …. However, inequality and welfare comparisons will usually be well defined only if equivalent incomes are obtained using … constant scale factors; and researchers will need to distinguish clearly between inequality of nominal incomes and inequality …

We describe a new method of facilitating inequality and poverty analysis of grouped distributional data by allowing … counterparts, then by comparing the true and generated values of the Gini coefficient and other inequality indices. The results …