Countering recent rises in many countries of inequality in income and wealth is widely recognized as a major … literature by taking stock and providing an overview of current knowledge of the impact of income inequality on three important … outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance, with a focus on …

poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …-monetary poverty have gradually improved over the past 20 years but significant differences across the country remain. …

expenditure and income inequality using household surveys. Using VHLSS data, we measure inequality in different welfare indicators …, including consumption expenditure, income, electricity spending, and durable and housing value. Although relative inequality …

interpersonal inequality during 1975-2005 are measured using data from UNU-WIDER’s World Income Inequality Database. In order to … is a complex one. In particular, we demonstrate that the changes in China’s and India’s income distributions over the …

apply the model to childhood poverty in Mozambique. …

In this paper we describe the major trends in China's income inequality over the past 40 years and explain them as the … story, in which changes in income distribution result from the shift from plan to market. Third is incomplete transition …, with opportunities for rent-seeking, corruption, and hidden income. Fourth is the story of government efforts to moderate …

translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty …. Collectively these chapters provide a nuanced discussion of key distributive phenomena like the high concentration of income among …

-2020. The study relies on group data to implement a flexible parametric model to obtain the global income distribution and … reflects whether individuals cluster with peers of similar income or are segregated from different income groups. Consequently …