that can be used to analyse the inequality phenomenon in and among countries. The data are easily accessible for use in … comparative research on inequality across regions and countries, especially those covered by the UNU-WIDER World Income Inequality … Database (WIID) initiative. This initiative is among the leading data innovations in the field of inequality research. This …

Different concepts of inequality lead to different positions in discussions about whether economic growth leads to … increasing inequality. This study investigates how over 1,100 young adults in Mozambique perceive inequality and whether their … believe that inequality in their neighbourhood is too high and that circumstances beyond their control explain why some people …

Limited attention has been paid to how well social mobility measures debated and used to study industrial countries …, three mobility concepts illustrate how properties that appear innocuous in industrial country analysis become problematic … when downward mobility includes descents into destitution. For origin-independence measures-the most widely used in …

at each percentile of the initial personalized distribution with counterfactual mobility profiles which rule out the …, significant upward mobility among the initially poorer, a sizeable part of which cannot be explained by unobserved individual …

Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases … poverty in 4 countries using a US$1.25/day PPP poverty line, in 8 countries using a US$2.50/day line, and in 15 countries …

. Inequality and poverty changes were not affected by imputation. We took advantage of the methodology proposed to input rents and … methods. In 2015, 2.5 per cent of the sample had per capita incomes imputed, resulting in slightly higher levels of inequality …

In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …

We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … remained incomplete and was unevenly spread over the population even 22 months after the start of the pandemic. Poverty more … than doubled during the lockdown and even after almost two years was slightly higher than before the pandemic. Inequality …

This paper attempts to measure the extent of inequality within households and its contribution to overall levels of … inequality in child well-being. The paper analyses the distribution of resources (outcomes) between girls and boys for four … obtained from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. It assesses total inequality and its within-household component for two …

This study focuses on growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda. We take a broad perspective, in two respects. First, we …. Second, we look beyond static measures of material welfare and study economic and social mobility as well as indicators of …