Relative deprivation (RD), also known as relative poverty , an idea implicitly put forward by Adam Smith in The Wealth …

income poverty and inequality in Latin Americaand the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC with other …

appears to be a leap from the frying pan into the fire of even greater income inequality and poverty incidence. … evidence that Federalism is a strong predictor of greater income inequality in developing economies. It is also a strong … predictor of higher poverty incidence and poverty severity on average for all countries. Federalism does not predict lower …

Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality …, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense …

rise in income inequality. Poverty has increased sharply with an estimated 18.5% of the population on incomes below the …

This paper investigates the increases in inequality observed in Brazil during the 1980s, as well as the declines in the … first half of the 1990s. It also documents the more cyclical trends in poverty during the same period. Using static …

This paper summarizes the main results on changes in poverty and inequality in Argentina and the world in the last …