This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality … and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz Curves to represent inequality is also provided. It highlights …

The aim of this article is to synthesize the various views of gender inequality and various indicators used to measure … neoclassical as well as the institutions and markets advancement are not sufficient to explain gender inequality. The political …

between infrastructure and poverty in India in a regional framework. Infrastructural availability improves average living … standards and lowers the incidence of poverty but the relation between infrastructural situation and inequality indicates higher …Developing countries attach enormous importance to physical infrastructure for poverty reduction. We contend that this …

assesses impact of agricultural land on poverty and inequality in rural Vietnam. It is found that agricultural land increases …, agricultural land helps poverty reduction. Due to agricultural land, the headcount of poverty for land holders is reduced by around … 1.2 percentage points. Agricultural land also decreases the poverty-gap and poverty-severity indexes for the land …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West …