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 …

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 …

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 …

Using a 2006 household survey in Mali, we compare current poverty rates and inequality levels with counterfactual ones …

This paper proposes a microeconomic decomposition of the evolution of income inequality in Côte d’Ivoire in the 1990s … inequality in Abidjan was the result of changes in the socio-demographic population structure and of changes in unobserved …/Non-Ivorian wage differential worked toward a more equal distribution. Concerning the link between growth and inequality, it is …