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 …

. This has resulted in a remarkable poverty reduction in the last two to three decades in the two economies. PRC and India …

income inequality in the 1990s. In this paper I investigate the causes of unprecedented changes in income distribution using … a unique panel of inequality estimates for 24 transitional countries for the period 1989-1998. The fixed effects model …-sectional studies. The relationship between income inequality, measured by Gini coefficient, and per capita GDP is shown to be positive …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the …, income inequality is perceived more negatively with increased perceived fairness, due to the need for unexpected policy … satisfaction ; subjective well-being ; inequality ; income distribution ; redistribution ; political ideology ; justice ; fairness …