land and housing bring little gain to mean consumption and play little role in explaining inequality. Inheritance of non … more important to adult welfare than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident. …

the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency of … high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising … inequality to increase poverty. Based on the basic needs approach, an analysis-of-covariance model is estimated, with the …

society. Comparative analysis reveals that certain endowments exist in societies that experience a ‘persistence of inequality …-tropical products’ to contribute to the rise and persistence of an elite, and consequently inequality. The focus shifts to the …

growth is analysed by exploring the interrelationship among growth, inequality, and poverty. The present growth spell appears …

This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the … empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the …

Labour market incomes have been a major contributor to the important fall in inequality in Latin America during the … 2000s. Indeed, it was the main contributor in countries where inequality fell more dramatically. A proper understanding of … the workings of the labour market is necessary to comprehend why inequality fell, what lies ahead of us and what we can do …

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

This paper discusses different approaches to the measurement of global interpersonal in equality. Trends in global … interpersonal inequality during 1975-2005 are measured using data from UNU-WIDER.s World Income Inequality Database. In order to …