revenues and increase inequality, by reducing the progressivity of the personal tax system. A proposed reform package that …-wage earners would make inroads into poverty and inequality while encouraging formal work. This paper accompanies and extends the …

Purpose - Poverty and inequality undoubtedly remain substantial challenges to economic and human developments amid … piracy on inequality in Africa, we examine how a plethora of factors (IPRs laws, education & ICTs and government quality) are … instrumental in the piracy-inequality nexus. Design/methodology/approach - Two-Stage-Least Squares estimation approaches are …

Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between … 2006 and 2014, inequality was again on the rise. We apply decomposition techniques to analyse the proximate determinants of … labour income inequality and fiscal incidence analysis to estimate the first-order effects of taxes and social spending on …

This paper explores theoretical linkages between poverty traps, economic inequality and delinquency in a perfect … that the existence of a poverty trap under conditions of sufficient initial economic inequality and costly indivisible … inequality …