for measured inequality overall, and negligible for the incidence of poverty (relative to"high"poverty lines). But the net …

inequality. Although it highlights the importance of inequality reduction, it appears to be too general to be of much use for …

suggests that even an efficient privatization designed to be egalitarian may lead to increases in inequality (and possibly … the public sector may also contribute to an increase in inequality. So can labor market reforms that lead to a …

differences between functionals of two income distributions (such as inequality or poverty measures) into shares because of … Brazilian income distribution and those of Mexico and the United States, and find that most of Brazil's excess income inequality …

the cross-country literature on income inequality and growth may have been barking up the wrong tree, and that alternative …

The measurement of inequality of opportunity has hitherto not been attempted in a number of countries because of data … inequality is computed as a lower bound estimator of inequality of opportunity. Parametric and non-parametric estimates are … the sample of ever-married women aged 30-49 in Turkey, inequality of opportunity accounts for at least 26 percent (31 …

Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries …-ante measures of inequality of economic opportunity (IEO) across 41 countries, and of the Human Opportunity Index (HOI) for 39 … countries. It also examines international correlations between these indices and output per capita, income inequality, and …

outcome inequality may be attributed to differences in observed"circumstances,"including family background, and what part is … outcome inequality in Brazil, probably more so than in other countries for which information is available. Nevertheless, the … level of inequality after observed circumstances are equalized remains very high in Brazil. …