Inequality and social exclusion receive considerable contemporary policy attention. In the field of international … development, inequality - both vertical (between individuals and households) and horizontal (between groups) - is a core concern … in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Despite considerable attention to horizontal inequality in both research …

the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about two-thirds of global income inequality, but noticeably less - around … one half - of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years and different inequality indices …

Mitigating climate change requires information about the inequality in energy consumption. Recent contributions … (Banerjee and Yakovenko, 2010; Lawrence et al., 2013; Yakovenko, 2010, 2013) have studied energy inequality through the lens of … maximum entropy. They claim a weighted international distribution of total primary energy demand should approach a Boltzmann …

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 … "inequality convergence" with previously more equal countries becoming less equal over time and the obverse. We provide support …

Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher … inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization … how high inequality is, how it has been changing, and where they fit in the income distribution. Using a variety of large …