paper analyzes the sensitivity of inequality and poverty indicators to the adjustments made by ECLAC so as to enable a … leads to important changes in the top-end of the distribution and to an overestimation in the main inequality indicators in …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three … series of data sets. Our focus is on both urban and rural inequality, as well as the urban-rural gap, with the objective of … summarizing several “first-order” empirical patterns concerning the trajectory of inequality through the reform period. We …

paper analyzes the sensitivity of inequality and poverty indicators to the adjustments made by ECLAC so as to enable a … leads to important changes in the top-end of the distribution and to an overestimation in the main inequality indicators in … Chile. Chile looks more unequal in international relative terms due to this adjustment. -- inequality ; poverty ; income …

development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …

This paper explores the linkages between productivity and social development from the perspective of synthesizing the … income inequality mediates the relationship between productivity growth and poverty reduction. The greater the level of … inequality and any increase in inequality, the less an increase in productivity and income will reduce poverty. …

may have on a country's poverty levels and inequality. Our vulnerability scenarios are based on the national policies used … different effects on poverty and inequality. We find a significant increase on poverty headcount ranging from 25% to 33% percent …

. This paper presents evidence on the impact of economic crisis on poverty and inequality in Latin America. Crises not only …