consumption are much lower during monga season than in other seasons, and that seasonal income greatly influences seasonal … consumption. However, lack of income and consumption smoothing is more acute in greater Rangpur, the North West region, than in …

percent) of overall inequality in imputed consumption (the wealth index). …The measurement of inequality of opportunity has hitherto not been attempted in a number of countries because of data … consumption from the ancillary survey into the demographic and health survey. In both cases, the between-type share of overall …

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 …

inequality more understandable. Second, he derives the impact on the Gini of marginal changes in income or consumption by group … stratification (within the group) and inequality (between groups) along several dimensions at once. This makes the determinants of … applies the analysis to data from Bangladesh, with a focus on how inequality affects land ownership, education, and occupation …

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 …

income, consumption and expenditure surveys in 1990-91 and 1995-96, which straddled a period of economic volatility and …

is found to be very low in Mexico, suggesting that the high level of inequality found in the cross-section will persist …

income shock is appreciably slower for the poor than for others. They also find that current inequality reducesfuture growth … in mean incomes, though the"growth cost"of inequality appears to be small. The maximum contribution of inequality is … estimated to be 4-7 percent of mean income and 2 percent of mean consumption. …

differences between functionals of two income distributions (such as inequality or poverty measures) into shares because of … Brazilian income distribution and those of Mexico and the United States, and find that most of Brazil's excess income inequality …