Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household … quantiles of welfare distributions on regionally representative household survey data (2002-03 Household Budget Survey). The … analysis finds that household attributes account for most of the welfare differences between urban and rural areas within …

The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line …-fifths came from Asia, and half from China. Most of the new entrants remained fairly close to poverty, with incomes now bunched up …

paper examines correlates of unprecedented increases in inequality registered by most of the economies. The analysis shows … (mostly consisting of privatization and higher fees) are responsible for the pro-inequality effect; small-scale privatization … spending as share of gross domestic income reduces inequality. …

. Periodic crises have had real but heterogeneous welfare impacts and not just for poor people; indeed, some of the conditions … that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for …

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

This paper presents a new methodology to measure inequality that optimally combines household survey information and …

The author provides theoretical and empirical evidence of a negative association between income inequality and real … exchange rates. First, he builds a theoretical model showing the transmission mechanism from inequality to real exchange rates … findings provide empirical support for Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, government strategies agreed on with the World Bank …