The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government's stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …

Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between … 2006 and 2014, inequality was again on the rise. We apply decomposition techniques to analyse the proximate determinants of … labour income inequality and fiscal incidence analysis to estimate the first-order effects of taxes and social spending on …

-level activities, size-wise as well as state-wise, thereby creating some sort of inequality. Moreover, we also show that the aggregate …

What is the relationship between inequality and growth? This question has occupied and fascinated social scientists for … interplay between inequality and economic growth. Inequality might come in many forms: (top) incomes, wages, wealth, land, or … potential for growth to 'take off'. We consider causality running from inequality to growth; hence, the Kuznets hypothesis is …

Using illustrations from research on inequality, this paper offers evidence on the strengths of 'behavioural synthesis … and relative inequality have evolved from assumptions of income maximization to status-seeking competition, and to … conclude that methodological pluralism, i.e. scientific integration, is necessary when it comes to understanding inequality and …

groups (relative to non-exporters). Wage inequality within exporters is not driven by exporting but rather by characteristics …

took advantage of existing cleavages in the country at the time of their election-driven by inequality in the case of Lula …

-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty … consumption poverty and non-monetary poverty outcomes over this period, showing improvements in almost all indicators over this … period. At the same time, inequality has risen over the past 20 years and spatial inequality, in both monetary and non …