This paper juxtaposes changes over the last forty years in income growth and distribution with the mortality changes … similarities and linkages between changes in income inequality and health inequality and suggests some tentative explanations of …

were writing, and national income inequality also over the last two or three decades. There is a case today for more …

This study explores the extent to which inequality affects the impact of income growth on the rates of poverty changes …-SSA, so that within both regions there are considerable disparities in the responsiveness of poverty to income growth …, depending on inequality. Nevertheless, the income-growth elasticity is substantially less for SSA, implying relatively small …

contributions to the literature. One is the proposal of a new measure of pro-poor growth, which links growth rates in mean income … and in income inequality. The other contribution is a decomposition methodology that explores linkages between three …

This paper uses the data gained from an income categorization experiment for five shapes of income distributions to …, individual income satisfaction versus aggregate well-being, and the dual patterns of income categorization and limen setting. It …-frequency theory can be evidenced. Moreover, we demonstrate a welfare paradox which concerns a contradiction between individual income …

There are two main types of data sources of income distributions in China: household survey data and grouped data … across broader regions. Nevertheless, a major limitation of grouped data is that only mean (average) income and income shares … equivalent to assuming that all individuals in a quintile or decile group have the same income. This potentially distorts the …

individual income observations to be reconstructed from any feasible grouping pattern. In contrast to earlier methods, our … algorithm is evaluated first by using household survey records to compare true income observations with their synthetic …