This paper provides an assessment of how households’ income has fared compared with GDP. While the prime focus is on incomes around the median, attention is paid also to the bottom of the income distribution. Thus, one contribution of the paper is to deliver a fresh assessment of the evolution...

Luxembourg is a rich and fast-growing country. However, inequality of disposable incomes has trended up modestly over the past decades and relative poverty has risen reflecting mainly the rapid growth of high incomes. The relatively high inequality of market incomes is substantially reduced by...

Dans un processus de développement caractérisé par une croissance économique forte, comme c'est le cas en Asie du sud-est, la question de la pauvreté est indissociable de celle de la répartition des fruits de la croissance, elle-même déterminée par les rapports sociaux et leur...