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education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … other sub-national regions. However, Tanzanian society is becoming more unequal in wealth with rising wealth inequality …This study uses five series of demographic and health surveys to answer the question: 'Is horizontal inequality in …
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and mapping indicators of horizontal wealth inequality along geographic regions and ethnolinguistic identities. Using …This study seeks to add to the research on inequality in least developed countries, namely in Mozambique, by measuring … census data for 1997, 2007, and 2017, we identify possible intersecting inequalities, measuring between-group inequality …
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individuals' fairness perceptions regarding wealth inequality. It begins from the premise that prominent measures of inequality …'s contribution highlights the importance of 'intuitive' measures of political matters such as wealth inequality. It further indicates …This paper seeks to understand whether the way in which inequality is communicated through measurements influences …
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This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … one half - of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years and different inequality indices …, within-country wealth inequality has risen, halting the downward shift in global wealth inequality and raising the share of …
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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 …
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We investigate whether there are racial and ethnic disparities in children's education in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Viet Nam. We find that in all the four countries, and especially in Viet Nam, children from small ethnic groups have lower education attainment and cognitive ability. The gap in...
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connections to convert public property into private wealth. The large propertied class of Central Europe is well formed, and …
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We examine the heterogeneous and dynamic impact of China's New Rural Pension Scheme on intergenerational wealth … observed individual heterogeneity. Overall, we find that the pension scheme smooths wealth dependence between generations in … the wealth portfolio. Complementary policy interventions, particularly for the poor across generations, would be needed to …
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In this paper, we estimate the recent evolution of global interpersonal inequality and examine the effect of omitted … top incomes on the level and direction of global inequality. We propose a methodology to estimate the truncation point of … individuals in household surveys generate a downward bias in global inequality estimates that ranges between 15 per cent and 42 …
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This paper aims to advance understanding about the relationship between taxation and inequality in developing countries … taxes promoted the progressivity of the tax system and contributed to the reduction of inequality. Yet, the effectiveness of …
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