-left (2005-10). Income inequality diminished during the restoration of democracy, but started to grow steadily in the mid-1990s …, continuing this trend through 2009 and 2010.Trade liberalization, suppression of centralized wage-setting mechanisms, the drop in … reduction in labour income inequality and the introduction of noncontributory public transfers schemes. …

to the cases in which the mean income of the poor increases proportionally more than that of the non-poor. A new index is …

A key aspect defining the contemporary income distribution is the (increasing) share the top holds compared to the rest …. This paper shows that income concentration increases towards the very top of the distribution, while the shares the middle …- and upper-middle-income groups hold, remain stable across countries and over time. Traditional indicators less sensitive …

This paper presents preliminary evidence of the annual global income distribution since 1950 using a new integrated … dataset that aggregates standardized country income distributions at the percentile level estimated from various sources in … the World Income Inequality Database. I analyse the extent to which the main global inequality trends depend on specific …

expenditure and income inequality using household surveys. Using VHLSS data, we measure inequality in different welfare indicators …, including consumption expenditure, income, electricity spending, and durable and housing value. Although relative inequality …

This study explores the potential for South Africa to become an engine for intra- regional trade and industrial … development by linking other Southern African countries to its global value chains and, in the process, improving its global trade …

service exports is negligible. The expansion of services trade is constrained by various factors such as non-tariff barriers …