We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … remained incomplete and was unevenly spread over the population even 22 months after the start of the pandemic. Poverty more … than doubled during the lockdown and even after almost two years was slightly higher than before the pandemic. Inequality …

poverty status of households, while the impact of these assumptions on inequality between individual cannot be determined a …Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this …

growth and changes in global income inequality and poverty. The authors find that rapid growth in China (despite a downward … inequality. The impact of these twocountries is similarly critical with respect to global poverty reduction. … persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a …

growth and changes in global income inequality and poverty. The authors find that rapid growth in China (despite a downward … inequality. The impact of these two countries is similarly critical with respect to global poverty reduction … persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a …

This paper examines income inequality in rural India in 1993 and 2005. It attempts to ascertain the contribution of … different income sources to overall income inequality, and change in their relative importance between 1993 and 2005 through … decomposition of Gini coefficient. The paper finds that income inequality has increased between 1993 and 2005. Agriculture income …

Nexus between income inequality and technology capture is explored in a global CGE model to explore the ricochet effect … subsequently, leads to decline in income inequality. Dynamism of Southern Engines of Growth – India and China – caused them to …. This accrual of benefits could lead to sustained productivity growth and consequential relief of incidence of poverty in …

Studies of the spatial dimensions of inequality in developing countries are mostly restricted to states, provinces, or … procedure to calculate inequality between and within smaller spatial units in the context of India, taking advantage of census … (spatial) inequality between villages and blocks and to derive (local) inequality within these spatial units. We find that the …

This paper presents a new set of integrated poverty and inequality estimates for India and Indian states for 1987 …-88, 1993-94 and 1999-2000. The poverty estimates are broadly consistent with independent evidence on per-capita expenditure …, state domestic product and real agricultural wages. They show that poverty decline in the 1990s proceeded more or less in …