Joshi, Sudishka; Gebremedhin, Tesfa - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2010
counterparts. Understanding the relationship between poverty and income inequality is important to evaluate how a development … between poverty and income inequality. Cross sectional county level data from 1990 and 2000 for the 420 counties in the … Appalachian Region are used to examine the determinants of poverty and income inequality. The empirical results suggest that …