. We use the 2010/11 South African Income and Expenditure Survey as it contains exclusive goods, i.e. goods consumed by …

A subjective well-being approach is followed to assess the magnitude of inefficiency in the use of income. The … inefficiency in the use of income at all income levels, even for those in income poverty. It is shown that inefficiency is … significantly related to practices, attitudes, and motivations for consuming. Economic theory has focused on rising people's income …

differences between party members and others. Results suggest that party membership has a moderate positive effect on income, on … the order of seven per cent, and a large positive effect on subjective well-being, even after controlling for income … credit and to boost income from farm and non-farm enterprises. There are strong gender effects: men are several times more …

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 …

This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini … coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about two-thirds of global income inequality, but noticeably less - around …

adopted Van Praag's theoretical framework and used household survey data from Ghana to investigate the monetary income which … households that are food insecure require a higher monetary income to reach the same level of verbal qualification of well …-being than their counterparts who are food secure. Furthermore, per capita household income levels positively correlate with …

impacts household welfare, agricultural income, and farm revenue, and recommends inter alia households' diversification of …

available from income tax records. It seeks to throw light on the position of colonial elites during the period of British rule … Kingdom? It investigates how income concentration evolved in the last years of colonial rule, as the British government became …