inequality and stagnant income growth, leading to a slow-down in poverty reduction, even reversal of poverty trend. … of poverty in China in the 1990s. The changes in poverty trends are attributed to two proximate causes; income growth and … datasets and alternative assumptions about poverty lines and equivalence. Among the robust results are: (i) both income growth …

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 …

A natural way of viewing an inequality or a poverty measure is in terms of the vector distance between an actual …

This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some … of the likely factors that explain the reduction in income inequality that has taken place in the country in the last …

insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …