This paper proposes a microeconomic decomposition of the evolution of income inequality in Cˆote 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 …

, poverty and inequality in developing countries. This relationship has been widely discussed by economists during the last few … is shown in the third part of the paper, most empirical studies on the relationship between trade, poverty and inequality … show that trade has contributed to increased inequality in developing countries, which contradicts the results of standard …