(from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty and inequality in Ghana. To control … inclusion of remittances. The paper also finds that both types of remittances increase income inequality in Ghana. For …

, causing returns differences between the regions to persist. To reduce regional inequality in welfare in Bangladesh, the …

to which total income inequality is due to differential effort, as opposed to differential circumstances. This pair of …

The measurement of inequality of opportunity has hitherto not been attempted in a number of countries because of data … inequality is computed as a lower bound estimator of inequality of opportunity. Parametric and non-parametric estimates are … the sample of ever-married women aged 30-49 in Turkey, inequality of opportunity accounts for at least 26 percent (31 …

dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that … mild, but exhibit a strong regional pattern. Inequality is likely to fall in regions such as Latin America, which are … characterized by high initial inequality, and rise in regions like South Asia, characterized by low initial inequality. …

Income inequality in China has risen rapidly in the past decades across regions, between rural and urban sectors, and … most important factors explaining overall inequality are differential returns to schooling and sector of employment. A … carried out during the last 25 years. The authors argue that rising income inequality can be part of a normal process of …

percent in 2004. At the same time, however, different kinds of disparities have increased. Income inequality has risen … working class. There have also been increases in inequality of health and education outcomes. Some rise in inequality was … inevitable as China introduced a market system, but inequality may have been exacerbated rather than mitigated by a number of …