This paper analyzes the dynamics of poverty and income inequality during the recovery phase of the transition that … characterized the Republic of Latvia in the late 1990s. Despite a continued rise in income inequality, empirical evidence suggests … urban areas. In a context of rising income inequality and widening urban-rural income and poverty gaps, the benefits of …

lack of data for nonrespondents has hindered efforts to correct for the bias in measures of poverty and inequality. The … compliance falls as income rises. Correcting for selective compliance appreciably increases mean income and inequality, but has …

income inequality in rural Egypt. After pinpointing the importance of nonfarm income to the rural poor, the author decomposes … income represents the most important inequality-reducing source of income, agricultural income represents the most important … inequality-increasing source. A 1 percent marginal increase in nonfarm income will cause the Gini coefficient of overall income …

countries, are adjusted for differences in purchasing power parity between the countries. Measured by the Gini Index, inequality … between countries than by rising inequalities within countries. Contributing most to the inequality were rising urban …

Differing value judgments in measuring inequality underlie the conflicting factual claims about how much poor people … relative inequality versus absolute inequality, vertical inequalities versus horizontal inequalities, and whether they are … consistently individualistic in assessing the extent of inequality. The value judgments on these issues made by both sides need …

public policy by using a wide variety of evaluation functions, inequality indicators (like the extended Gini coefficient …

income inequality, little empirical research has been conducted to compare their relative explanatory power. The authors … examine the relation between financial intermediary development and income inequality in a panel data set of 91 countries for … the period 1960-95. Their results provide evidence that inequality decreases as economies develop their financial …

Reviewing the factors, and mechanisms that have been driving inequality in earnings in Mexico, the author finds that … inequality in education, accounts for the largest share by far of the variation in earnings. In fact, the contribution of … educational inequality to earnings inequality in Mexico, ranks second in size in Latin America, after that in Brazil, and its …

has focused on the impact of income inequality and growth. Less attention has been paid to the link between inequality and … which income inequality can affect aggregate saving. The authors present new econometric evidence on the link between saving … and inequality using new data on income distribution for a large cross-country sample. The results provide no evidence …

After Mexico's financial crisis in 1994, the distribution of income, and labor earnings improved. Did inequality … of inequality in Mexico. Mexico's economy had a strong performance in 1997. The aggregate growth rate was about 7 percent … close inspection of the mechanisms responsible for it. The authors analyze the decline in income inequality after the crisis …