Thepaper studies regional (spatial) inequality in the five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the … entities with substantial economic autonomy. Two types of regional inequalities are considered: Concept 1 inequality, which is … inequality between mean incomes (GDP per capita) of states/provinces, and Concept 2 inequality, which is inequality between …

Differing value judgments in measuring inequality underlie the conflicting factual claims about how much poor people … relative inequality versus absolute inequality, vertical inequalities versus horizontal inequalities, and whether they are … consistently individualistic in assessing the extent of inequality. The value judgments on these issues made by both sides need …

evaluation of the impact of a series of pro-growth policies on inequality and headcount poverty. He relies on a large … the policies under consideration on growth, inequality, and poverty. The author's findings indicate that regardless of … their impact on inequality, pro-growth policies lead to lower poverty levels in the long run. However, he also finds …

vary substantially. A growing theoretical literature suggests that inequality within communities can influence policy … the impact of inequality have, to date, largely been held back by a lack of systematic evidence on community …-level inequality. The authors use household survey and population census data to estimate per capita consumption inequality within …

Comparing changes in inequality with initial levels, using new data, the author finds that within-country inequality in … allow for serially independent measurement error in inequality data and for short-run dynamics around longer-term trends … the pattern. The author offers an approach to modeling the determinants of inequality that may be a starting point for …

The authors propose a modification to the conventional approach of decomposing income inequality by population sub …-groups. Specifically, they propose a measure that evaluates observed between-group inequality against a benchmark of maximum between …-group inequality that can be attained when the number and relative sizes of groups under examination are fixed. The authors argue that …

This paper examines support for reducing inequality and for income redistribution to specific groups in Europe and … of support for reducing inequality. …

in a typical household survey data, the inequality measures based on the data are unusually low. For example, for the … of inequality) is in the range of 16 - 18 percent. This is among the lowest Gini coefficients ever observed in any …. The objective of this paper is to investigate why inequality measures are unusually low in the Azerbaijan household survey …

Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as … inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using what are known as social tables, stretching from the Roman Empire 14 AD … applies two new concepts in making those assessments - what the authors call the inequality possibility frontier and the …