government is able to reduce the gap in relation to institutional delivery, inequality, and land holding. …

national, state, and district-level figures for overall, within and between consumption inequality. We find an increase in … inequality in India but only since 2004. We also document an increase in between group (or horizontal) inequality over the entire … period. We then investigate the impact of ethnic fragmentation and public good provision on inequality. We hypothesize that …

effects on growth and on the evolution of income inequality; (ii) raising the consumption tax generates about as much economic … reduces inequality by more than utilizing the consumption tax. Hence, there is growth-inequality trade-off. …

-level activities, size-wise as well as state-wise, thereby creating some sort of inequality. Moreover, we also show that the aggregate …

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. …

represent extreme cases in the relationship of inequality to both wellbeing indicators. Income is more highly concentrated than … expenditure in India, especially at the top of the distribution. Both types of inequality are similar in China, although … and levels between the two wellbeing distributions. As a result, expenditure inequality is higher in China than in India …

This paper contributes to the literature by reviewing levels, trends, and structure of inequality since the early 1990s … the complexity of the underlying drivers of inequality changes. While the primary focus is on examining trends based on …

This paper applies a novel inequality estimation method to household consumption expenditure in Mumbai, India. Since … the richest households may be missing in survey data, this reestimated inequality figure takes them into account by … coefficient of 0.447 underestimates consumption inequality in Mumbai; none of the ten investigated scenarios yields a higher …

Studies of the spatial dimensions of inequality in developing countries are mostly restricted to states, provinces, or … procedure to calculate inequality between and within smaller spatial units in the context of India, taking advantage of census … (spatial) inequality between villages and blocks and to derive (local) inequality within these spatial units. We find that the …