created daily, the problem of inequality is becoming more and more visible. But, lulled into the commonly stated maxim that “a …

1998-2001 period have offset the increase in inequality that would have occurred otherwise. They also contribute to a …

When measuring health inequality using ordinal data, analysts typically must choose between indices specifically based … compares inequality rankings across a number of different approaches and finds considerable sensitivity to the choice between …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … distributional evaluation of policy reforms. An application to the UK (1998-2001) confirms previous findings that inequality and …

This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality and in so doing investigates the …

. Our aim is to describe the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality. Our framework nests the special …

economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …

-led engagement in non-agricultural activities would be inequality-decreasing through increasing the incomes of the poorer parts of … the population and would reduce poverty. Opportunity-led diversification, by contrast, would increase inequality and have … opportunity-led diversification. Yet, the poverty and inequality implications of the differently motivated diversification …

Do preferences for income inequality differ systematically between the post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern … address this question. In particular, we examine whether attitudes to inequality differ between East and West even after the … inequality and other determinants of attitudes are taken into account. These results do not seem to be driven by a recent change …