In the first empirical study on how financial reforms have been instrumental in mitigating inequality through financial sector competition, we contribute at the same time to the macroeconomic literature on measuring financial development and respond to the growing field of economic development...

During the last twenty years, Mexico experienced a big increase in the migration of rural labor force to the United States. This phenomenon has been accompanied by an increase in remittances; by 2002, remittances accounted on average for more than 10% of rural households' income. In this...

This paper uses the Watts poverty index in order to derive a breakdown of poverty into chronic and transitory poverty. Following a paper by Chakravarty et al. (2008), we then suggest a new decomposition of these two components. Using the new decomposition, we are able to analyze the contribution...

The paper estimates an earnings frontier by the method of Corrected Ordinary Least Squares (COLS) and categorizes households as efficient or inefficient based on some benchmark efficiency score and the estimated frontier. The spatial distribution of the poor and non poor households is then...

The paper uses the procedure for estimating regional consumer price index numbers based on the estimation of item-specific region wise Engel curves. Given the problem of unavailability of official district level poverty lines, the same are estimated by multiplying the official state level...

This is a simple illustration of using the concept of poverty gap in determining the rich and in turn the middle class given the consumption expenditure distribution of a population. Based on the transfer principle from rich to the poor it assumes complete alleviation of poverty. Such an...

This paper uses panel data to decompose total poverty into its chronic and transient components and to estimate the determinants of each type of poverty for the case of Mexico. It was found that 69 percent of total poverty is chronic and 31 percent is transient. Using censored quantile...

From data collected by questionnaire survey of three communes in the Kandal province of Cambodia, where public water supply remains inaccessible, this study estimates the demand function for drinking water and finds that the price elasticity is between -0.26 and -0.29. Based on this, and given...

In this study we examine the link between of income inequality and wholesale price of wheat using panel data. We have weekly time series data on prices for wheat for 3 districts in Uttar Pradesh in India obtained from the Department of Economics and Statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture,...

This study examines the impacts of foreign direct investment, regional economic integration, and human capital development on regional income inequality in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Using panel cointegration and causality techniques, the empirical evidence illustrates that...