The isograph methodology is developed here with associated distributions, indicators of inequality, additional results … distributions (FC, Dagum, SinghMaddala) are presented along with new proposals, including gb2 subfamilies with p=1/q and p=q, the … completes LaSi with a polarization term of intensity pi and location kappa. This latest proposal fits better the cases of …

Income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are estimated by a … method of moments procedure applied to grouped data. Estimated parameters of these distributions are used to calculate … measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992 - 2010. Changes in these measures are …

In this paper, income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are … estimated by a method of moments procedure applied to grouped data. Estimated parameters of these distributions are used to … calculate measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992-2010. Changes in these measures …

and concludes with an empirical illustration for the case of Honduras. -- pro-poor ; growth ; income ; inequality …

inequality are better estimated when the true distribution is unimodal than multimodal. For unimodal distributions, biases …Poverty and inequality are often estimated from grouped data as complete household surveys are neither always available … these methods, we use unit data from several household surveys and theoretical distributions. We find that poverty and …

A growing literature examines the effects of poverty, inequality and polarization on civil war but analyses typically …-coded data on 15 000 conflict deaths spread over a decade with small-area estimates of poverty and inequality for almost 4000 … war. Local relative wealth inequality is postively associated with the escalation of conflict, suggesting that relative …

high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in … mean incomes rather than redistribution. Even so, there have been important changes in inequality, especially between … different social groups, as educational attainment has replaced ethnicity as the main determinant of inequality between groups. …