This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in … to poverty and inequality. Additionally, we assess gender disparities in outcomes, quantify the distributional effects of …

, growth has been accompanied by substantial reduction in poverty, albeit increasing inequality. This development is explained …

understanding horizontal inequality and indigenous politics. This paper presents new analysis of survey data, allowing for …

We provide annual estimates of inequality in monthly per capita household earnings in India over the period 2017/18 to … 2022/23 based on analysis of India's Periodic Labour Force Surveys. Over the six years, the estimate of inequality as ….7 per cent. Our analysis suggests that inequality will start declining only when India's urbanization rate is in the region …

Seven decades ago, Simon Kuznets put forward the hypothesis that as economies developed, national inequality would … of inequality, and the metaphor of an inverse U-shape is extended beyond its original realm of national inequality. With …

According to the Kuznets hypothesis, inequality first tends to increase and then decrease as a country develops … development and income inequality for decades. In this paper we investigate whether a similar relationship holds between national … income per capita and inequality of opportunity: the inequality associated with inherited individual circumstances such 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 …

-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 …

after the reform, hence exacerbating 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 …