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 …A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy mismatch in tackling the relative …

This paper studies the income of Swedish households belonging to the baby boom generation, i.e., those born in the 1940 …-50. An international comparison as well as an historical presentation of income patterns is given. However, the main purpose … is to generate the future income of the baby boom generation as they get older. A major result is that the income …

of answering this question is to compare two or more comparable cross sections and gauge changing income inequality among … panel income changes. How do these two approaches relate to one another? This paper shows, first, that it is possible to … have all four combinations – rising or falling inequality and divergent or convergent panel income changes, and second …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper …

large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …

-benefit systems in most OECD countries reduce income disparities very significantly, the Brazilian government has been much less … successful in alleviating inequality and poverty. Focussing on taxes and cash transfers, this paper investigates the impact of … the government budget on the income distribution in Brazil, and evaluates its efficiency and effectiveness in reducing …

The first objective of our paper is to identify the determinants of income satisfaction in Spain, with one of these … reduce individual deprivation. Our results suggest that the more unequal the income distribution is in a group, the less … income satisfied is the individual. Moreover, being unemployed is one of the main determinants of deprivation, although …

income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty … 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 …

the three components mean child income, demographic circumstances and the distribution of child income. Child poverty is …This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over …

income and estimates of income inequality over this high-growth period. We focus on two questions: How have benefits from … in which inequality may vary, notably urban versus rural, and by ethnic status. We also decompose inequality by income …