Relative deprivation (RD), also known as relative poverty , an idea implicitly put forward by Adam Smith in The Wealth …

This paper summarizes the main results on changes in poverty and inequality in Argentina and the world in the last …

rise in income inequality. Poverty has increased sharply with an estimated 18.5% of the population on incomes below the …

income poverty and inequality in Latin Americaand the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC with other …

This paper investigates the increases in inequality observed in Brazil during the 1980s, as well as the declines in the … first half of the 1990s. It also documents the more cyclical trends in poverty during the same period. Using static …

earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … summary measure of inequality. With access to public use and restricted-access internal CPS data, and bounding methods, we … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate time-inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality …

earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … summary measure of inequality. With access to public use and restricted-access internal CPS data, and bounding methods, we … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate time inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality …

in poverty. We conclude by discussing the methodological pitfalls and policy implications of our research. …

inequality. The article explores the factors that contributed to these trends and discusses the relevance of our findings for …