. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …

Inequality, bi-polarization and polarization are related but distinct concepts aiming at analysing the income … distribution. This paper first recalls the main differences between these three notions of inequality, bipolarization and … on inequality, bipolarization and polarization is analyzed via what is known as the Shapley de-composition and the …

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

association of reduction of income inequality (redistribution) with subjective wellbeing. Their results provide evidence that … people in Europe are negatively affected by income inequality, whereas reduction of inequality has a positive effect on well …-being. Since the authors simultaneously estimate the effects of income inequality and its reduction, their results indicate that …

income. Hence effective education policies should be an essential component of any poverty-reduction strategy. …

shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …

population growth rates produce better outcomes. China and India play a central role on poverty reduction and global inequality … poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future …

This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the … hyperinflation in 1985. A similar evolution of per capita income suggests a positive impact of growth on urban poverty, although the … period 1985–99. It turns out that urban poverty declined somewhat after the initial stabilization phase that followed the …

-led. Survival-led diversification would decrease inequality by increasing the incomes of poorer households and thus reduce poverty …. By contrast, opportunity-led diversification would increase inequality and have a minor effect on poverty, as it tends to … diversification strategies. Yet, the poverty and inequality implications differ somewhat from our expectations. Our findings indicate …

specialising in those activities the household is relatively good at. They also tend to benefit more from agricultural growth. …