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 offers a medium-term perspective for analysing the trade openness.inequality relationship in Latin America … years 1980-2010. This 30-year database allows observing clearly that the increases in inequality throughout the 1980s and … this regard is that greater trade openness is associated with contemporaneous increases in inequality in the region. The …

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 …

This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American … outcomes and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrolment, wage …

This study assesses the evolution of inequality in Uruguay during 1981-2010, considered as subperiods built on the …-left (2005-10). Income inequality diminished during the restoration of democracy, but started to grow steadily in the mid-1990s … and despite recent redistributive reforms, continued to grow, albeit modestly, until 2007. In 2008 inequality lessened …

Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market … (cash transfers) in explaining changes in inequality. We apply the .re-centred influence function. method to decompose …; institutional factors were not relevant. Government transfers contributed to the decline in inequality, especially after 2000. …

We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality …, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005, which is followed by falling inequality thereafter. Using an … inequality decomposition technique, we show that the rising inequality between 1991 and 2005 was, for the most part, driven by …