been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …

more concerned with development, and establishes the degree of inequality at the time of independence in the late 1950s and … early 1960s. What was the colonial legacy? How far did colonial inequality persist post-independence? …

This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the … empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the … forces that determine inequality change, focusing on factor accumulation and structural change. Next it considers the …

, being a member of a group that has greater levels of within-group inequality reduces support for a plurality-choice party …, while living in a country with higher levels of between-group inequality increases support for a plurality-choice party. The …

and infer the role of growth in the evolution of inequality of opportunity over time. We show that despite a reduction in … the real value of the household consumption and a surge in outcome inequality between 2009/10 and 2010/11, the consumption … dynamic appears to alleviate inequality of opportunity in Uganda. …

inequality as a social dynamic within the space of support and evaluate whether providing worseoff others corresponds to former … discriminatory practices under the apartheid regime. My results suggest that inequality has normalized a sense of support as …

-benefit policies stabilized earnings losses. We then evaluate the impact on income-based poverty and inequality and the contribution of … inequality, and somewhat larger effects on the poverty gap due to lower relative earnings losses of the poor population at the …

learn from each other to improve social protection and reduce inequality. …

African development; (ii) income distribution, inequality, and poverty; and (iii) economic structure, interdependence, and …