one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds …

. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …

the effect of transaction costs on foreign remittances. The authors find that the effect of transaction costs on … home or make them remit through informal channels. They also find that remittances are facilitated by the existence of …

This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality and in so doing investigates the …

. Our aim is to describe the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality. Our framework nests the special …

productivity ranges, the authors show that for manufacturing industries, inequality in the low productivity range is larger than … inequality in the low productivity range has strong correlation with GDP. In addition, by comparing the power law exponents of … the high productivity range in the manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries, the authors show that the inequality of …

This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains … constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median … of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally we also propose a …

In this paper we look at lifetime inequality to address two main questions: How well does a modern tax system, based on … annual information, target lifetime inequality? What aspects of the tranfser system are most progressive from a lifetime … perspective? To answer to these questions it is crucial to relate lifetime and annual inequality and determine the main building …