countries, with emphasis on the role of income inequality.  The focus is on the period since the early-mid-1990s when growth in …-growth story.  While in the majority of countries, growth was the major factor behind falling or increasing poverty, inequality …, high initial levels of inequality limit the effectiveness of growth in reducing poverty while growing inequality reduces …

Most recent studies on poverty and inequality in developed countries focus on income. In contrast, this paper presents … trends in consumption-based poverty and inequality in nine member countries of the European Union. During the 1980s, both … poverty and inequality increased in Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Belgium, while decreases in both poverty …

rise in inequality of income that occured in Chine over those seven years. The Gini coefficient of household income per … for the rise in inequality are economic growth and economic transition. …

This paper attempts to analyse certain significant aspects of increasing income inequality in China in the nineteen …

-lasting civil war.  Our results suggest that higher polarization between ex-rebels' groups increases the risk of electoral violence …

model shows that the higher the initial wealth inequality the larger the size of the informal economy and the higher the … wealth inequality will be in the long-run.  The paper calibrates the model using numerical simulations. …

constraints and where individuals differ in wealth levels.  The model shows that the higher the initial level of inequality in … wealth is, the lower the long run aggregate wealth of the economy and the higher the long run inequality will be. …

Two essential intuitions about the concept of multidimensional inequality have been highlighted in the emerging body of … literature on this subject: first, multidimensional inequality should be a function of the uniform inequality of a multivariate …-correlation between distributions of goods or attributes in different dimensions (Atkinson and Bourguignon, 1982; Walzer, 1983). While the …