This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … and in income inequality. The other contribution is a decomposition methodology that explores linkages between three …

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … Brazilian National Household Survey covering the period 1995-2004. -- inequality ; poverty ; growth ; pro-poor growth ; labour … and in income inequality. The other contribution is a decomposition methodology that explores linkages between three …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … poverty has declined greatly but by others it has hardly declined at all, even over the fifty years. The global middle class …

This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the … empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the … forces that determine inequality change, focusing on factor accumulation and structural change. Next it considers the …

change in income, inequality, and poverty over the 15 year period and investigates the determinants of poverty. It is found …Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …, reduction in social welfare provision, deregulation of grain prices, and increases in income uncertainty in the 1990s have …

case studies rather than cross-country regression analysis; (ii) the phenomenon of increasing inequality; (iii) different …) alternative modes of redistribution in face of inequality increasing tendencies. …

regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period …

. Inequality and poverty changes were not affected by imputation. We took advantage of the methodology proposed to input rents and … methods. In 2015, 2.5 per cent of the sample had per capita incomes imputed, resulting in slightly higher levels of inequality …

We review the literature on the links between inequality, growth and welfare. Three questions are addressed: 1) What is … the impact of growth and development on inequality? 2) What is the impact of inequality on growth, development and welfare …? 3) What is the impact of proequality public policies upon growth and welfare? As regards the first question, the …