poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … better formulate policies of fostering inclusive growth. Economic growth itself is an important source of welfare …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimensional distributions … approach by contrasting Canada and the US using comparable data. Canada dominates the US over the lower bi-dimensional welfare …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty …

experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …

, our analysis suggests that economic development can make societies more prone to religious revivals …