One approach to analyzing inequality is to compare average economic choices from a classical theoretical framework … outcomes. This paper studies the effects of slavery on black-white wealth inequality upon the emancipation of slaves in the US …

believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy … this must always have been true. Indeed, some have argued that high inequality appeared very early in the post … performance we observe there even today. This paper argues to the contrary. Compared with the rest of the world, inequality was …

Poverty trap models are dynamical systems with more than one attractor. Similar dynamical systems arise in optimal …

Using HIES 2000 data, the paper presents asset based poverty information so that it is possible to provide incentives … measurements and other methods are available to characterise households under poverty, asset based measurements provide a new … insight into poverty and related welfare studies. By applying fractional polynomial regression, it is found that there is a …