used to establish patterns of wealth inequality within countries. Imputations are again performed for countries lacking … cent. Between-country differences in wealth are two-thirds of global inequality according to the Gini coefficient …, indicating a larger role for within-country inequality than in the case of income according to recent estimates. …

This study explores the extent to which inequality affects the impact of income growth on the rates of poverty changes … poverty reduction as a decreasing function of initial inequality. The impacts are similar in direction for SSA and non-SSA, so … inequality. Nevertheless, the income?growth elasticity is substantially less for SSA, implying relatively small poverty …

This paper depicts the trend of regional inequality in rural China for the period 1985-2002. The total inequality is … west). A regression-based accounting framework is then used to explore root sources of the rising inequality. Policy …