review of recent research, consideration of how inequality is discussed in legal documents, and an analysis of inequality … using household survey data from Viet Nam. Inequality is widely mentioned in legal documents. As of May 2024, there are 443 … expenditure and income inequality using household surveys. Using VHLSS data, we measure inequality in different welfare indicators …

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 …

In this paper, we use the World Income Inequality Database to assess the main trends in inequality within countries … only a few exceptions, we compare the same inequality concept obtained from the same source in two different years in each … witnessing a decline of inequality as measured by the Gini index, even if once accounted for the fact that inequality increased …

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 …

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 …

-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health and compare it with a simple ordinary least squares regression. The structural …

investigates long-term changes in income inequality and poverty in China. Income inequality rose before 2007 and then fell by a … small amount. The main reason for the rise in income inequality was that high-income percentiles had faster income growth … than lower percentiles; the fall in income inequality implies faster income growth among low-income percentiles. The paper …

The interest in the level of global inequality has surged in recent years. This paper complements existing estimates of … global inequality by providing the first estimates of the level of bipolarization of the global income distribution. During … 'absolute' measures. The results mirror trends in global inequality over the same period. …

to changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality’s actual dimension, and thus help perpetuate it … v.2, could function as a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality. …