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the dynamic study of inequality through the lens of social stratification. …
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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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Most Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries have accepted, in principle at least, the 50-year-old commitment of contributing 0.7 per cent of gross national income to supporting the development of countries in the Global South. But what if all countries made a universal...
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This paper develops a normative approach to the measurement of ex-ante inequality of opportunity in a multidimensional … separately. The agnostic and inequality-averse classes are implemented by a welfarist Lorenz ordering, namely of type …-aggregate utilities. In the case of the inequality-averse class, utility functions are submodular, hence capturing the dependence between …
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We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality …, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005, which is followed by falling inequality thereafter. Using an … inequality decomposition technique, we show that the rising inequality between 1991 and 2005 was, for the most part, driven by …
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helped to 'repoliticize' inequality and return redistributive policies to a central place on the political agenda in the … inequality, therefore, differ significantly from those of Latin America's ISI era, as well as those that prevailed during the …
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