. This holds true for brothers and sisters. In Denmark 20 percent of the inequality in permanent earnings can be attributed …

poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … population growth rates produce better outcomes. China and India play a central role on poverty reduction and global inequality …

evaluate their expected future income using both their current income and observable characteristics such as education, race or …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that …

. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that …

Does more education really mean less poverty and less inequality? How much less? What are the transmission mechanisms … inequality. These results are highly dependent on assumptions about the behaviour of returns to education, both for the …-based policies aimed at increasing educational attainment would have substantial impacts on poverty reduction, but muted effects on …

The paper describes the issue of the impact of poverty and income inequality on the health of the population using … equity with respect to financing and access is undermined. It is emphasized that reducing poverty and income inequality … health to the disadvantage of the poor, and to changes in impoverishment and income inequality associated with payments for …

The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government's stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …

We describe a new method of facilitating inequality and poverty analysis of grouped distributional data by allowing … counterparts, then by comparing the true and generated values of the Gini coefficient and other inequality indices. The results …