This study examines the rise and fall in income inequality in Ecuador over the past two decades. Falling income equality during the 2000s partly coincides with the rise to power of a .new leftist. government, but the trend was already set early in the decade. The recent trend is mainly...

Climate variability poses a major risk to agricultural incomes in Africa. In Ghana, most of the country.s poor people live in the north and households find it difficult to hold back their productive assets during the lean season. This study investigates t

This paper focuses on measuring the extent to which publicly subsidized transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean redistribute income. The redi$