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

helped to .repoliticize. inequality and return redistributive policies to a central place on the political agenda in the … inequality, therefore, differ significantly from those of Latin America.s ISI era, as well as those that prevailed during the …

trade fronts but also of failure in reducing chronic inequality of income and wealth. In addition, the current growth … stratification in access to education, health and pensions. A reduction in social inequality would require changes in several fronts …

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … and in income inequality. The other contribution is a decomposition methodology that explores linkages between three …

This paper establishes the principles which should govern the welfare and inequality analysis of heterogeneous income …. However, inequality and welfare comparisons will usually be well defined only if equivalent incomes are obtained using … constant scale factors; and researchers will need to distinguish clearly between inequality of nominal incomes and inequality …

We describe a new method of facilitating inequality and poverty analysis of grouped distributional data by allowing … counterparts, then by comparing the true and generated values of the Gini coefficient and other inequality indices. The results …

This paper aims at measuring and analysing for the first time inequality in the distribution of expenditures among …