In this paper, we use the World Income Inequality Database to assess the main trends in inequality within countries … period of time. These trends are complemented with information for inequality in income and wealth from other sources, paying … special attention to the top of the distribution. …

We analyse income and expenditure distribution in China in a comparative perspective with India. These countries … represent extreme cases in the relationship of inequality to both wellbeing indicators. Income is more highly concentrated than … expenditure in India, especially at the top of the distribution. Both types of inequality are similar in China, although …

), disentangling the effect of changes in the composition of the population by groups and changes in their income distribution by …I discuss a new approach which decomposes inequality into the contributions of population groups by income sources. I … estimate a matrix with rows and columns which indicate different population groups and income sources respectively, with each …