like South Africa, health inequality by wealth in self-reported health measures appears to be nearly non-existent. We test … after correction. We also address the question whether and how health inequality and reporting heterogeneity are confounded …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … poverty has declined greatly but by others it has hardly declined at all, even over the fifty years. The global middle class …

income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC estimates to …

The South African government has set as a policy objective the halving of poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this … goal has not yet been defined. This article frames government’s stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of … specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty headcount ratio, using newly released income and expenditure survey data. With …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West …

Countries differ widely with respect to the level of labour income inequality among individuals of working age. Labour … income inequality is shaped by differences in wage rates, hours worked and inactivity rates. Individual labour income … inequality is the main driver of household market income inequality, with family formation as well as self-employment and capital …

The paper looks at how inequality in household expenditure components affects total inequality and poverty in Malawi …-component inequality increases overall poverty in Malawi. The results also show that the elasticities of poverty, as measured by the …. Using data from the second integrated household survey (IHS2), we find that the elasticities of poverty with respect to …

This paper looks at the linkage between poverty and inequality by investigating the poverty impacts of changes in … within and between inequalities in Malawi. We recognize the multidimensional nature of both poverty and inequality by … namely; what is the contribution of within-group inequalities (vertical inequalities) to total poverty? And what is the …

case studies rather than cross-country regression analysis; (ii) the phenomenon of increasing inequality; (iii) different …) alternative modes of redistribution in face of inequality increasing tendencies. …