This paper, using a new set of social development indices, explores the measurement of social development across Africa …, and how this relates to broader development patterns and measurement. Development practitioners worldwide increasingly …

In this paper we reassess the relationship between inequality and human development, focusing on the differential … distributive data consistent across countries and over time (World Income Inequality Database companion datasets). We show how the … concentration of income at the bottom and top, rather than overall inequality, is negatively associated with human development. This …

This paper seeks to understand whether the way in which inequality is communicated through measurements influences … individuals' fairness perceptions regarding wealth inequality. It begins from the premise that prominent measures of inequality …, such as the Gini coefficient, fall short of providing an intuitive understanding of inequality for most people. Following …

procedure to calculate inequality between and within smaller spatial units in the context of India, taking advantage of census …Studies of the spatial dimensions of inequality in developing countries are mostly restricted to states, provinces, or … (spatial) inequality between villages and blocks and to derive (local) inequality within these spatial units. We find that the …

zero and household real consumption reducing in all areas of the country. Meanwhile, inequality stagnated in the period … inequality for Mozambique and their trends over the last 25 years. Using real per capita consumption as the main welfare … aggregate, we look at various indicators of inequality, including the consumption distribution, percentiles and percentile …

different inequality measures yield varying results. Despite having higher absolute inequality, country clusters with extremely … high levels of democracy are characterized by lower relative inequality. They also have the lowest ratio of the income …-quality institutions generally do not differ much in terms of inequality outcomes. …

This paper explores the relationship between a large government cash transfer programme, changes in inequality, and … political participation in Mexico. The results show that increases in the coverage of the programme during the 2008 financial …