Income inequality is on the rise, and everyone, from President Obama and Pope Francis to Prince Charles and Standard … is as true in Canada as it is in almost all of the other rich countries where inequality has risen. In this paper I tell … two stories about inequality – one from the perspective of those who feel it is not a problem worth the worry, and the …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …

analyzes the potential effects of fuel prices on poverty and inequality in Paraguay. Using microsimulation methods and based on … the Commitment to Equity framework, it estimates the impact of higher fuel prices on welfare, poverty, and inequality …The recent global increases in fuel prices threaten the gains in poverty reduction that countries like Paraguay have …

In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour … and performance of German firms. More specifically, we study the sanctions imposed by the EU against Russia in 2014 in … trade restrictions, we provide further evidence on the indirect effects of sanctions. Analysing the impact on broader …

poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …

effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of aggregate inequality and poverty using the data of EU-SILC for the … period 2007–2014. The results show that inequality rose but the magnitude of the change varies across indices. The recorded … contribution of disparities between educational groups to aggregate inequality declined while that of disparities between socio …

. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … inequality levels. We also find greater inequality to have negative impact on economic growth and poverty reduction. Our results …Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few …

unexpected and unprecedented international economic sanctions on Iran in 2012 and estimate the short-run effects of the change in …This paper investigates the effect of economic sanctions on employment. We exploit the imposition of a series of … import exposure on manufacturing employment at the industry level. Our estimates indicate that the sanctions led to an …