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. … persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a …

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

income inequality are negatively correlated with relative regional social mobility. In the model, segregation is driven by …This paper analyzes the relationship between spatial mobility and social mobility. It develops a two-skill-type spatial …, whereas regional income inequality also depends on the magnitude of the productivity gap of low-skilled relative to high …

Our goal is to examine the income inequality and welfare effects of the direct distribution of resource rents and … tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative … rents-induced inequality. …

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 … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se …

relatively poor for both rural and urban areas across the states of India. The hypotheses that inequality impacts consumption …

In view of rising inequality in fast growing Asian developing countries, it is important to study the relationship … between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can … bear a complex and non-linear relationship if policy makers try to impact on one (say, inequality) by influencing the other …

more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …