This paper examines the changes in regional and sectoral inequality that accompanied economic transformation in Russia … and China throughout the 1990s. The experiences of the two countries are widely viewed as having been polar opposites … inequality. In both cases, regional inequalities rose more sharply than inequalities across sectors but within regions. In …

Although it is often argued that wealth inequality matters more for economic growth than income inequality, this … timeframe. Leveraging hitherto unexploited wealth inequality data from the World Inequality Database, covering a panel of 165 … at the top of the distribution and economic growth. A one standard deviation increase in wealth inequality within …

on economic activity (night lights and GDP), together with the lack of significant in uence on patterns of inequality …

inequality, the figure decline dramatically starting from the year 2000. In this setting, Bolivia has been one of the poorest … research applies a method of inequality decomposition– as developed by (Fields, 2003)-, this technique consists on regressing … other variables) has contributed on the reduction of inequality in Bolivia. Moreover, the sources of inequality are mainly …

This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in … double, interpersonal inequality would decline by 40-50% and inter-provincial inequality would vanish. In all years …

manufacturing sector toward high value-added products. However, regional inequality in China has increased considerably behind the …China has achieved unprecedented success in economic growth since the initiation of economic reforms. The high growth … transformation and industrial upgrading on regional inequality. This paper contributes to the literature by employing a database …

This study applies the regression-based inequality decomposition technique to explain poverty and inequality trends in …; disparities in income inequality between male- and female-headed households are largely explained by education, the share of … gender-based inequality in Cameroon. …

An inequality measure is consistent if it ranks distributions the same irrespective of whether health quantities are … represented in terms of attainment or shortfalls. This consistency property severely restricts the set of admissible inequality … condition, the restrictions onthe admissible inequality measures disappear. …