fluctuations and extreme output events (crises) on unemployment, poverty, and inequality. The authors find robust evidence that …

components to distinguish underlying income inequality and changes in poverty from the effects attributable to measurement error …. The author finds that: 1) Accounting for noise in the data reduces inequality (as measured by the Gini coefficient) by 10 …

High inequality in Africa is something of a paradox: Africa should be a low-inequality continent according to the … widely shared. The author's hypothesis is that African inequality is politically determined. Yet in the empirical analysis …, despite the introduction of several political variables, there is still an inequality-increasing"Africa effect"linked to …

in) consumption, poverty, growth, and inequality in Bangladesh from 1983 to 1996. Education, demographics, land ownership … areas) and land (in rural areas) contribute most to measures of between-group inequality. Location takes second place, in … both urban and rural areas. The author introduces the concept of conditional between-group inequality. Existing group …

The effect of the distribution of political rights on income inequality has been studied both theoretically and … high degree of economic inequality. And democratization in the form of franchise expansion has typically led to an … other measures of democracy, based on civil liberties and political rights, and inequality. The transition experience of …