We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …

Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …

We look at the contribution of various income components on income inequality and the changes in this in Belgium … become smaller in an absolute sense between 1985 and 1997, but - due to the large increase in labour income inequality - only …

weighted Lorenz-criterion as an inequality measure. It is shown that in general there is at most one such weighted egalitarian …

This paper examines the relationship among poverty, economic growth, and inequality by decomposing poverty changes at …

to achieve the MDG targets for maternal and child health. This study shows inequality in maternal and child health …

reducing poverty and perhaps inequality, as well as better fertility management--particularly among the poor--aimed at the …

inequality measures. In this paper, we show the salient features of the country`s poverty situation in a hope to contribute to …