to changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality's actual dimension, and thus help perpetuate it … v.2, could function as a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality. …

more concerned with development, and establishes the degree of inequality at the time of independence in the late 1950s and … early 1960s. What was the colonial legacy? How far did colonial inequality persist post-independence? …

In this paper, we estimate the recent evolution of global interpersonal inequality and examine the effect of omitted … top incomes on the level and direction of global inequality. We propose a methodology to estimate the truncation point of … individuals in household surveys generate a downward bias in global inequality estimates that ranges between 15 per cent and 42 …

South Africa exhibits extreme levels of income inequality and is ranked as one of the most unequal countries in the … world. In order to measure these severe levels of inequality, it matters how we account for the different parts of the … decrease in overall inequality of taxable income in South Africa between 2011 and 2014, the two years under observation …

-benefit policies stabilized earnings losses. We then evaluate the impact on income-based poverty and inequality and the contribution of … inequality, and somewhat larger effects on the poverty gap due to lower relative earnings losses of the poor population at the …

We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … than doubled during the lockdown and even after almost two years was slightly higher than before the pandemic. Inequality …

A substantial amount of research has been conducted examining inequality in South Africa using multiple data sources … estimate income and consumption inequality in South Africa between 1993 and 2017, and we discuss the comparability of income … and consumption measures across surveys. We compare our estimates of inequality to those in the World Income Inequality …

In this paper we explore the links between international migration and income inequality. After presenting a simple … confirm that inequality-in both origin and destination countries-significantly shapes individual choices about where, and … whether, to migrate. We find that the effect of inequality at both ends of migration corridors is heterogeneous across …

of these measures on income-based poverty and inequality. We find notable reductions in disposable incomes, concentrated …

the differences across the income distribution and impacts on measures of poverty and inequality. The paper also evaluates …