income inequality using household survey data is 0.464 for 2016, and it jumps to 0.646 after including the samples of the top … incomes, which demonstrates the great importance of the top incomes in estimating income inequality. …

Top income under-coverage in developing countries not only leads to downward biased inequality indicators but might … tax records. ECUAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador, is then used to compare income inequality, total … income tax revenue in our simulations. Moreover, income inequality measured by the Gini coefficient increases by 3 points …

This paper applies a novel inequality estimation method to household consumption expenditure in Mumbai, India. Since … the richest households may be missing in survey data, this reestimated inequality figure takes them into account by … coefficient of 0.447 underestimates consumption inequality in Mumbai; none of the ten investigated scenarios yields a higher …

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 …

methods. In 2015, 2.5 per cent of the sample had per capita incomes imputed, resulting in slightly higher levels of inequality …. Inequality and poverty changes were not affected by imputation. We took advantage of the methodology proposed to input rents and …

inequality in South Africa. Using a static tax-benefit microsimulation model with input datasets that were adjusted to reflect …