show that Mexican states are characterized by income and inequality convergence, that lower levels of inequality tend to … spur growth in the economy, that increasing income/consumption levels contribute to reducing inequality, and that poverty … reduction into components arising from growth, improved income distribution, and heterogeneous inflation. We find the component …

. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional … poor are really maxims regarding the nature of stochastic processes that underlay the income/wellbeing paths of groups of … attributing different processes to different groups in society following the club convergence literature are also discussed …

, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … migrating peasants, and, consequently, has a positive effect on narrowing the rural-urban income or consumption gap. Urban labor …

on the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency … of high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising … variables. The study finds that the responsiveness of poverty to income growth is a decreasing function of inequality and that …

This paper evaluates income distributions in four European countries (Austria, Italy, Spain and Hungary) using two …

We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the … world. The current benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates of monthly real consumption and income for every …

We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the … world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates of monthly real consumption and income for every percentile …

We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the … world. The current benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates of monthly real consumption and income for every …

This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … on average the levels of national income inequality in the developing world increased in the 1980s and 1990s, and … developing countries. It includes a discussion of data sources and measurement issues, evidence on the levels of inequality and …

This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … on average the levels of national income inequality in the developing world increased in the 1980s and 1990s and declined … developing countries. It includes a discussion of data sources and measurement issues, evidence on the levels of inequality and …