Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure are two gender-based indicators provided by the United Nations …

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

include economic growth, local poverty, and inequality, all of which are generally believed to accelerate the process. Of …

This study presents a comprehensive picture of poverty chnages in China in the period of 1978-95. Using two micro data … sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty distribution among various localities and …

two are inter-connected. It discusses policy alternative policies to counter extreme poverty and inequality. The paper …The paper studies the relation between globalization, inequality and marginalization, within and across nations. It … reviews the existing evidence on globalization and global inequality and argues, using a simple theoretical model, that the …

trends in world income inequality, it examines first the ‘growth’ conduit through which globalization affects poverty …. Treating inequality as the explicit filter between growth and poverty reduction, the causal chain of openness-growth-inequality-poverty …The paper offers a critical literature review of the debate surrounding the globalization- poverty nexus, focusing on …

Health data, poverty, and inequality exist in a complex global co-dependency, therefore making meaningful comparisons … uncounted. Alternative strategies are needed to fill in inequitable gaps in data. Poverty either in physical terms or in data …

is relatively small, except in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Income and inequality elasticities of poverty change …The impact of globalization on global and local inequality is hotly debated in the recent literature. This study … considers the separate issue of the impact of globalization on poverty through quantifying explicitly the responsiveness of …

This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and … inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, within-village extended family networks in 504 poor …

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 …