This paper explores the relationships between openness, poverty and inequality in Africa. The analysis begins with a … guided African policymaking over the last three decades is the lens through which poverty and inequality are further examined …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference …-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity—aspects emphasized in Prospect Theory—to social welfare measurement. We suggest a … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …

The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government … expenditure). We show that inequality may have no discernible effect on the size of redistributive programs. …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased … indicates that global inequality would be underestimated if within-country inequality is not taken into account. Moreover …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …

The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government … expenditure). We study the effects of inequality on the size (and structure) of redistributive programs in both perfectly … case and that in the latter case an increase in inequality can be associated with a fall in the tax rate. We find also that …

This paper deals with the causes and consequences of inequality and poverty in the countries east of the new frontiers …

Our goal is to examine the income inequality and welfare effects of the direct distribution of resource rents and … rents-induced inequality. …

inequality and widening gaps between rich and poor, and urban and rural. It is therefore it is important to examine the … interrelationships between inequality and economic growth. This paper develops a simple model to establish that the change in income …, inequality and growth bear a non-linear relationship: for low values of inequality, economic growth rate is an inverted U …

This paper analyses the nature and causes of the patterns of inequality and poverty in India. Since the economic … liberalization in the early 1990s, the evidence suggests increasing inequality (in both spatial and vertical terms) as well as …

of poverty has broadened, with increasing attention to issues of vulnerability, inequality and human rights. Second, the …