Natural disasters cause economic damages and may exacerbate disparities in income distribution among countries across … forest fires on economic inequality around the world. Using quasi-random spatial and temporal variation in both the incidence … inequality among rural areas. Results indicate that the Gini index in rural areas increases by 13.72 per cent and 22.02 per cent …

COVID-19 causes extremely high mortality among the old. This motivates a comparison of the losses of future lifetime …'s excess mortality profile were scaled up three-fold and then came to pass in Kenya, the aggregate loss of future lifetime …

In this paper, we use the World Income Inequality Database to assess the main trends in inequality within countries … period of time. These trends are complemented with information for inequality in income and wealth from other sources, paying … only a few exceptions, we compare the same inequality concept obtained from the same source in two different years in each …

Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently … understanding of the extent and nature of inequality. From these measures, we know that inequality has been rising in Ghana despite … high and stable growth and a decline in the poverty rate. Although rising, however, inequality is low in Ghana compared …

to the cases in which the mean income of the poor increases proportionally more than that of the non-poor. A new index is …

on the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency … of high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising … variables. The study finds that the responsiveness of poverty to income growth is a decreasing function of inequality and that …

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 … reduced world inequality. Income inequality has changed little within countries, so the downward trend remains intact. However …

This paper contributes to the literature by reviewing levels, trends, and structure of inequality since the early 1990s … the complexity of the underlying drivers of inequality changes. While the primary focus is on examining trends based on … standard economic indicators of income/consumption and wealth, the paper briefly reviews distributions of selected non …