Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household …

, this paper reviews the evidence on levels and recent trends in global poverty and income inequality. It documents the … negative correlations between both poverty and inequality indices, on the one hand, and mean income per capita on the other. It … and between countries. The statistical relationships between growth, inequality and poverty are discussed, as is the …

(from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty and inequality in Ghana. To control … internal and international remittances reduce the level, depth, and severity of poverty in Ghana. However, the size of the … poverty reduction depends on the type of remittances received. In general, poverty in Ghana is reduced more by international …

about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances … in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have increased growth and reduced inequality and poverty. These results …. Household survey-based estimates for 10 LAC countries confirm that remittances have negative albeit relatively small inequality …

remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 … percent in 2004. At the same time, however, different kinds of disparities have increased. Income inequality has risen … working class. There have also been increases in inequality of health and education outcomes. Some rise in inequality was …

remittances on income, poverty, inequality, and human capital (or, in general, "welfare") as well as difficulties confronting …

of per capita income has important implications for the relative roles of income growth and inequality changes in poverty … reduction. When poverty reduction is the overriding policy objective, poorer and relatively equal countries may be willing to … tolerate modest increases in income inequality in exchange for faster growth-more so than richer and highly unequal countries. …

The main objective of this paper is to provide an ex-ante assessment of the poverty and income distribution impacts of … poverty is not too large, its dispersion across households-due to their heterogeneity of factor endowments, inputs use … enlarging its own liberalization to countries other than the United States to boost trade-induced poverty reductions. …

social assistance transfers targeted to the poor; and a possible decline in racial inequality. Although poverty dynamics …Measured by the Gini coefficient, income inequality in Brazil rose from 0.57 in 1981 to 0.63 in 1989, before falling … back to 0.56 in 2004. This latest figure would lower Brazil's world inequality rank from 2nd (in 1989) to 10th (in 2004 …