Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases …

This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The paper provides a …

indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper …

distributions. Social planners commonly use two SWFs: SWFε implied by income inequality aversion (ε) and SWFv implied … by rank inequality aversion (v). However, a voluntary choice of ε or v may result in inconsistent assessments of …; and v that guarantee consistent assessments of social welfare, inequality and poverty embodied in a given income …

economic inequality, has attracted the greatest attention. However, the picture becomes much more complex if other epidemics … affected inequality in health and living standards. …

Our goal is to examine the income inequality and welfare effects of the direct distribution of resource rents and … rents-induced inequality. …

Resource-rich economies and ethnically divided societies are linked to higher income inequality at the macro level. Our … goal is to empirically examine the income inequality and welfare effects of the direct distribution of resource rents and … policy is the most successful policy for addressing rents-induced inequality in Iran compared with the alternative policies. …

involved, of the difficulties which can arise in the measurement of poverty and inequality when one compares populations of …. Complications arising from both the poverty and inequality rankings of distributions when the aggregate size of the population is … and ethical appeal, there are problems involved in variable population comparisons of poverty and inequality which deserve …