This study uses five series of demographic and health surveys to answer the question: 'Is horizontal inequality in … education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … education attainment has been moving in waves; however, there was an invested U-shaped trend where inequality increased between …

significantly more than previously suggested. Currently, the average Gini index (a common measure) of inequality in Eastern Europe …High levels of economic inequality may lead to lower economic growth and can have negative social and political impacts … is about 3 percentage points higher than in the rest of Europe. This rise in inequality was initially driven by …