Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …

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 …

This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the … period 1985–99. It turns out that urban poverty declined somewhat after the initial stabilization phase that followed the … hyperinflation in 1985. A similar evolution of per capita income suggests a positive impact of growth on urban poverty, although the …

restructuring, have fueled the growth in inequality within urban areas. Poverty levels, however, are very low. We find that spatial …This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three … series of data sets. Our focus is on both urban and rural inequality, as well as the urban-rural gap, with the objective of …

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 …