COVID-19 causes extremely high mortality among the old. This motivates a comparison of the losses of future lifetime …'s excess mortality profile were scaled up three-fold and then came to pass in Kenya, the aggregate loss of future lifetime …

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 … only a few exceptions, we compare the same inequality concept obtained from the same source in two different years in each …

Natural disasters cause economic damages and may exacerbate disparities in income distribution among countries across … forest fires on economic inequality around the world. Using quasi-random spatial and temporal variation in both the incidence … inequality among rural areas. Results indicate that the Gini index in rural areas increases by 13.72 per cent and 22.02 per cent …

Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently … understanding of the extent and nature of inequality. From these measures, we know that inequality has been rising in Ghana despite … high and stable growth and a decline in the poverty rate. Although rising, however, inequality is low in Ghana compared …

This paper provides a broad picture of national, regional and global trends of inequality in length of life over the … of inequality measures for 201 countries at five-year intervals over the period under analysis. We estimate both absolute … and relative inequality measures which have the property of being additively decomposable. This property makes the …

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 …

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 aims at measuring and analysing for the first time inequality in the distribution of expenditures among … decomposition of the Gini index through Shapley's approach, within-group inequality is greater than between-group inequality. These …