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...

Since early 90s, the issue of income convergence across regions has been widely discussed in a number of papers, both looking at long-term tendencies and trying to establish the role played by several socio-economic determinants. Much less attention has instead been devoted to the analysis of...

The United States ranks second among the advanced nations of the world in per capita health care expenditures. However, there is wide variation in health care spending across states. This paper therefore focuses on exploring factors that influence the per capita outlays in health care across the...