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 … witnessing a decline of inequality as measured by the Gini index, even if once accounted for the fact that inequality increased …

date, and then to use this as a background for the analysis of poverty, inequality, and non-monetary outcomes. The analysis … of poverty and inequality uses the microeconomic data from three comparable and nationally representative Cameroonian …

countries. The WIID project is designed to facilitate such a comparison by providing a standardized measure of inequality that … comparability of inequality measures over time. We then compare the inequality estimates reported by the WIID Companion with the …Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently …

A natural way of viewing an inequality or a poverty measure is in terms of the vector distance between an actual … Canberra distance function leads to an inequality measure in the tradition of the Bonferroni and Gini indices of inequality …. The paper discusses some properties of the measure, and presents a graphical representation of inequality which shares …

This paper aims at measuring and analysing for the first time inequality in the distribution of expenditures among … decomposition of the Gini index through Shapley's approach, within-group inequality is greater than between-group inequality. These …