Inequality and social exclusion receive considerable contemporary policy attention. In the field of international … development, inequality - both vertical (between individuals and households) and horizontal (between groups) - is a core concern … in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Despite considerable attention to horizontal inequality in both research …

A considerable body of research suggests that horizontal inequality between ethnic groups has major socioeconomic … implications, in particular for peace and economic development. Much of this work focuses on horizontal inequality as an … empirical reasons for treating horizontal inequality as a dependent variable and challenging assumptions of fixity. We first …

summarize recent horizontal inequality trends across and within countries and to better understand these changes over time …. Importantly, significant differences exist for different inequality dimensions, i.e. economic, social, political. In terms of data …, few cross-country horizontal inequality datasets are available for research. In general, there is a trade-off between the …

Understanding wealth inequality has unique significance in South Africa. The coexistence of extreme poverty and extreme … wealth is starkly visible. Apartheid-era inequality has persisted despite more than 20 years of democracy. Much of the … research on inequality has focused on inequality of income and of opportunities. There is a large gap in understanding wealth …

consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about two-thirds of global income inequality, but noticeably less - around … one half - of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years and different inequality indices …

the major source, followed by the 'growth mobility'. The comparison with income inequality indicated that the low degree … of mobility is not conducive to the narrowing of inequality. However, the high degree is not accompanied by the …

to changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality's actual dimension, and thus help perpetuate it … v.2, could function as a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality. …

This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …