poverty and inequality. This paper uses the sharp trade liberalization in India in 1991, spurred to a large extent by external … factors, to measure the causal impact of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in districts in India. Variation in …

One of the principal mechanisms through which inequality is reproduced is language, specifically the language used as …

The paper tracks spatial inequality in social progress in Bangladesh as evidenced from the district level data. It uses … reasons for such unexpected deviations from the general pattern. The paper concludes that the extent of spatial inequality in … social development has decreased over the second half of the nineties although the overall level of inequality remains …

In this paper they analyze the relation between inequality, corruption and competition in a developing economy context …-input costs which they could avoid by bribing inspectors. Due to information asymmetry and wealth inequality, the credit market … inequality can lead to an increase in corruption along with greater competition. [Research Paper No. 2005/46] …

There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the relationship between income inequality and growth, manifested in … on developing countries has led to an upsurge of interest in linkages between policy reform, growth, inequality and … poverty. They use the WIDER/UNDP World Income Inequality Database to investigate the links between growth, inequality and …

The economist’s conceptualisation of inequality in terms of interpersonal distribution of income or wealth, and the … tradition of measurement of inequality that follows from this conceptualisation have not paid adequate attention to the need for … reckoning inequality across social groups. In this paper they show that certain simple statistical tools to analyse categorical …