We review the theoretical and empirical economic literature upon income inequality in emerging countries. We firstly … display rather conflicting results. Most cross-country studies find a weak impact of globalization on income inequality. In … correlation between openness and the relative demand for skill and inequality. These apparently conflicting findings reflect the …

social fragmentation is often associated with greater inequality, which, as Olson pointed out, may be beneficial to … fragmentation and ethnically based patronage. Given that both patronage and inequality are common in developing countries, it is …

societies and over time, can be determined, among others, by income inequality, gender differences, social stratification and …

intergenerational linkages contribute to current inequality? We address these questions using original survey data on Senegal that … inequality, though they have important effects on sector of activity. Inheritance of non-land assets and the education and … than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident, though it is almost entirely explicable …

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … declare low and high levels of happiness. Rising income inequality moderates the fall in happiness inequality, and may even … the happiness of all, it will at least harmonize the happiness of all, providing that income inequality does not grow too …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …