A natural way of viewing an inequality or a poverty measure is in terms of the vector distance between an actual …

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …

rent in the tax base might affect inequality in each of the countries considered. Housing taxation appears to be a … promising avenue for raising additional revenues, or lightening taxation of labour, with no inequality-increasing side-effects. …

output drop and weak governance, have led to a sharp rise in inequality among households. Sharp inequities have arisen not … the main driving forces of income inequality in Georgia, as it emerges from the analysis of the first representative … survey of incomes and expenditures of Georgian households in 1996-1997. The paper finds that the level of inequality for …

are analogous to the widely-used decompositions of inequality indices by population subgroup, except that they summarize … are not dependent on the choice of a specific summary index. Nonetheless, since inequality and poverty indices can be …