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 …

of these measures on income-based poverty and inequality. We find notable reductions in disposable incomes, concentrated …

the differences across the income distribution and impacts on measures of poverty and inequality. The paper also evaluates …

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 …

This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the … empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the … forces that determine inequality change, focusing on factor accumulation and structural change. Next it considers the …