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 … forces that determine inequality change, focusing on factor accumulation and structural change. Next it considers the …

In this paper, we estimate the recent evolution of global interpersonal inequality and examine the effect of omitted … top incomes on the level and direction of global inequality. We propose a methodology to estimate the truncation point of … individuals in hous6000 unehold surveys generate a downward bias in global inequality estimates that ranges between 15 per cent …

This paper aims to advance understanding about the relationship between taxation and inequality in developing countries … taxes promoted the progressivity of the tax system and contributed to the reduction of inequality. Yet, the effectiveness of …

This study uses five series of demographic and health surveys to answer the question: 'Is horizontal inequality in … education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … education attainment has been moving in waves; however, there was an invested U-shaped trend where inequality increased between …

This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …

inequality as a social dynamic within the space of support and evaluate whether providing worseoff others corresponds to former … discriminatory practices under the apartheid regime. My results suggest that inequality has normalized a sense of support as …

This study seeks to add to the research on inequality in least developed countries, namely in Mozambique, by measuring … and mapping indicators of horizontal wealth inequality along geographic regions and ethnolinguistic identities. Using … census data for 1997, 2007, and 2017, we identify possible intersecting inequalities, measuring between-group inequality …

Overall income inequality in South Africa is very high, and inequality generated in the labour market is a key driver … of inequality. In this paper, I use the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series, the General Household Surveys, and … administrative tax microdata to describe earnings inequality in South Africa. I estimate Gini coefficients, the variance of log …

-benefit policies stabilized earnings losses. We then evaluate the impact on income-based poverty and inequality and the contribution of … inequality, and somewhat larger effects on the poverty gap due to lower relative earnings losses of the poor population at the …