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. …

Mozambique on household consumption poverty. To predict changes in income and the associated effects on poverty and inequality …

-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 …

dramatic increase in income poverty and inequality between December 2019 and June 2020. The poverty rate, measured with the … cent. Inequality measured by the Gini coefficient increases substantially from 0.461 to 0.592. On average, household …

concludes that the pandemic could reinforce the existing trend towards higher social inequality. …

This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia's Social …

, that direct taxes and cash transfers are overall progressive and reduce inequality and poverty. Our disaggregated analyses …

In very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above … the rest. This is also true for educational inequality in Mozambique: only a small segment of the population has access to … good quality. This study investigates inequality in past attainment, in current school access, and learning or educational …

I discuss a new approach which decomposes inequality into the contributions of population groups by income sources. I … element indicating the marginal change in the inequality contribution of a group (as measured by the recentered influence … function) when an income source is added and with all contributions adding up to overall inequality. The approach can be used …

This paper analyses how inequality across counties in the United States of America has shaped the impact of the COVID …-level inequality at the start of the pandemic. The results show that more stringent measures to contain the pandemic were instrumental … in driving the incidence of protests, but only in counties with high levels of inequality before the start of the …