tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there … differing assessments of poverty and inequality under quite general conditions. German microdata will be used to demonstrate and …

persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a … growth and changes in global income inequality and poverty. The authors find that rapid growth in China (despite a downward … inequality. The impact of these twocountries is similarly critical with respect to global poverty reduction. …

This paper focuses on the role of institutions in the fight against poverty and inequality. Our view of institutions …-income poverty à la capability approach of Amartya Sen) allows a rich discussion of policy interventions. While both orientations as … to the concepts of poverty, inequality and institutions are expounded on a priori reasoning, empirical analysis with LAC …

ominous messages for using equitable growth in fighting poverty. Rapid growing developing economies need to adopt appropriate … crucial to ensure more equity and social stability. -- growth ; inequality ; poverty ; East Asia and the Middle East …

poverty in the pandemic’s first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a sample of 141 countries. An … income. Poverty as measured by the $1.90 per day standard has a small negative association with death rates. The elasticity …