This paper challenges this view. It argues that while income inequality declined in several nations between the 1950s …. This conclusion is based on an econometric analysis of inequality trends for 77 countries accounting for 82 per cent of …) that the traditional causes of income inequality (land concentration, unequal access to education, urban-rural gap, and so …

In the current debate on the relationship between inequality in income distribution and growth one of the possible link …

This paper's goal is to increase the understanding of the inequality trends during the transitional period in China … inequality. …

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 …