This study uses five series of demographic and health surveys to answer the question: 'Is horizontal inequality in … education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … education attainment has been moving in waves; however, there was an invested U-shaped trend where inequality increased between …

witnessing a decline of inequality as measured by the Gini index, even if once accounted for the fact that inequality increased …In this paper, we use the World Income Inequality Database to assess the main trends in inequality within countries … only a few exceptions, we compare the same inequality concept obtained from the same source in two different years in each …

to changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality's actual dimension, and thus help perpetuate it … v.2, could function as a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality. …

more concerned with development, and establishes the degree of inequality at the time of independence in the late 1950s and … early 1960s. What was the colonial legacy? How far did colonial inequality persist post-independence? …

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 …

South Africa exhibits extreme levels of income inequality and is ranked as one of the most unequal countries in the … world. In order to measure these severe levels of inequality, it matters how we account for the different parts of the … decrease in overall inequality of taxable income in South Africa between 2011 and 2014, the two years under observation …

-benefit policies stabilized earnings losses. We then evaluate the impact on income-based poverty and inequality and the contribution of … inequality, and somewhat larger effects on the poverty gap due to lower relative earnings losses of the poor population at the …

We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … than doubled during the lockdown and even after almost two years was slightly higher than before the pandemic. Inequality …

A substantial amount of research has been conducted examining inequality in South Africa using multiple data sources … estimate income and consumption inequality in South Africa between 1993 and 2017, and we discuss the comparability of income … and consumption measures across surveys. We compare our estimates of inequality to those in the World Income Inequality …

In this paper we explore the links between international migration and income inequality. After presenting a simple … confirm that inequality-in both origin and destination countries-significantly shapes individual choices about where, and … whether, to migrate. We find that the effect of inequality at both ends of migration corridors is heterogeneous across …