. Income inequality also decreased, as income growth has been primarily pro-poor in recent years. Despite variations across …

a successful transition from low-income to middle-income country status. As millions have moved out of poverty and … government will need increasingly rely on the middle class, whose income taxes will finance much of the investment that a growing …

This report presents an update of poverty and income distribution statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean and … examines the trends in these statistics during the 1980s. The document also provides a series of nonmonetary social indicators … of income inequality relative to other regions of the world, and the results of this study indicate that this continues …

decomposition technique based on the Gini coefficient to discern the relative importance of the major income components in … determining overall income inequality. …

This poverty and equity report provides updated poverty and inequality statistics from the Grenada Survey of Living …