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 …

This paper investigates the importance of accounting for the profile of inequality in the analysis of institutional … literature-a single inequality indicator. Results suggest that total income inequality and institutional trust are positively … associated but this aggregated result hides some troubling countervailing effects. In fact, when the whole profile of inequality …

of these measures on income-based poverty and inequality. We find notable reductions in disposable incomes, concentrated …

the differences across the income distribution and impacts on measures of poverty and inequality. The paper also evaluates …

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 …

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 …

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 …

the dynamic study of inequality through the lens of social stratification. …