This paper presents microeconomic simulation techniques to examine what drives differences in inequality across … countries. The simulation decomposes cross-country inequality differences into the importance of individual decisions, such as … the world. The empirical results provide insights into the transmission mechanisms through which inequality is generated. …

equality and equity in education and discusses the prominent issues regarding the use of large-scale national and international …

equality and equity in education and discusses the prominent issues regarding the use of large-scale national and international …

This paper argues that there is no country in Latin America where we can confidently say that income inequality … increases in inequality among the first nine deciles. In the remaining 5, the reason is a greater concentration among the …, inequality has increased less in this region than in developed countries and in Eastern Europe. …

While decreasing inequality is generally considered desirable, and there is a growing understanding of which policies … do and do not promote equality, much less is known regarding why these policies are adopted to varying degrees of …-economic groups arises on how government should address inequality rather than whether it should do so. While poorer respondents …

of poverty rates and inequality levels. We also estimate a heterogeneous response to the mining-abundant condition …, finding stronger responses in lower-poverty, higher-inequality districts. Finally, we find a trend suggesting incremental … activities, on the reduction of poverty and inequality. …