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Is income inequality tending to fall in countries with high inequality and to rise in those where inequality is low? Is … there a process of convergence toward medium-level inequality? …
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In Asia inequality in income between countries is more important than inequality within countries. In Africa, Latin … America, and western Europe and North America, by contrast, there are only small differences between countries; inequality …
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Ideology, as proxied by a country's dominant religion, seems to be related to inequality. In Judeo-Christian societies … increased democratization appears to lower inequality; in Muslim and Confucian societies it has an insignificant effect. One … of inequality, while Judeo-Christian societies, where family ties are weaker, use political action …
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Despite the development community's shift in emphasis toward the poor, malnutrition, like other dimensions of poor health, is concentrated among the worst off. Yet targets are still defined in terms of population averages. Consider, then, this information about malnutrition rates among different...
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Data on occupational choice among return migrants in Tunisia reveal that higher inequality of wealth reduces the level …
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