The isograph methodology is developed here with associated distributions, indicators of inequality, additional results … distributions (FC, Dagum, SinghMaddala) are presented along with new proposals, including gb2 subfamilies with p=1/q and p=q, the … completes LaSi with a polarization term of intensity pi and location kappa. This latest proposal fits better the cases of …

The isograph methodology is developed here with associated distributions, indicators of inequality, additional results … distributions (FC, Dagum, SinghMaddala) are presented along with new proposals, including gb2 subfamilies with p=1/q and p=q, the … completes LaSi with a polarization term of intensity pi and location kappa. This latest proposal fits better the cases of …

Income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are estimated by a … method of moments procedure applied to grouped data. Estimated parameters of these distributions are used to calculate … measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992 - 2010. Changes in these measures are …

shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German … period of income. Estimates from annual, quarterly and monthly distributions are provided for one and a half decades …

A growing literature examines the effects of poverty, inequality and polarization on civil war but analyses typically …-coded data on 15 000 conflict deaths spread over a decade with small-area estimates of poverty and inequality for almost 4000 … war. Local relative wealth inequality is postively associated with the escalation of conflict, suggesting that relative …

. The relationship between polarization, inequality and poverty is analyzed via the index. First, polarization measure for …This paper revisits one of the bipolarization indices of the large class of Duclos-Estebane-Ray polarization measures … headcount ratio, the income gap ratio and the overabundance gap ratio. In particular, it is shown that polarization is high when …

This paper analyzes the relationship between polarization and inequality, welfare and poverty measures. First, the … Wolfson polarization measure is generalized in terms of the between-groups and within-groups Gini components for income groups … separated by any z income value. Second, it is shown that polarization is the difference between the welfare levels of rich and …

high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in … mean incomes rather than redistribution. Even so, there have been important changes in inequality, especially between … different social groups, as educational attainment has replaced ethnicity as the main determinant of inequality between groups. …

(DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … incomes from assets in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …