national, state, and district-level figures for overall, within and between consumption inequality. We find an increase in … inequality in India but only since 2004. We also document an increase in between group (or horizontal) inequality over the entire … period. We then investigate the impact of ethnic fragmentation and public good provision on inequality. We hypothesize that …

We show that inequality triggers social unrest in rural India. We develop a theoretical framework where social unrest … inequality measure increases by 6.5% the unconditional probability of observing social unrest in a village in a given month. …

We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … than doubled during the lockdown and even after almost two years was slightly higher than before the pandemic. Inequality …

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and … national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional … inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in a selection of large countries measured by the size of their population …

The paper describes inequality trends in selected emerging economies (Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, China, India …, Indonesia and South Africa) in a range of monetary (i.e. income) and non-monetary dimensions of people’s life (i.e. education … of living). To the extent made possible by the nature of available data, measures of income inequality for these emerging …