From a composite poverty indicator, the analysis of the level and evolution of multidimensional poverty in Togo between 1988 and 1998 emphasized a downward trend with the both relative and absolute thresholds considered. Over the two studied periods, non-monetary poverty appears very strongly...

This Article explores the United States Supreme Court’s role in furthering economic inequality. The Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011 not only highlighted growing income and wealth inequality in the United States, but also pointed the blame at governmental policies that favor business...

This chapter provides the attempt to quantify and decompose the degree of wealth-related inequalities in child malnutrition (compromised z-scores) for different socioeconomic complimentary sub-groups in India. The investigation starts with an assessment of the socioeconomic determinants for the...

This paper outlines a comparison empirically between overall inequality in child malnutrition (Malnutrition-Gini) and wealth based inequality in child malnutrition (Wealth-Based-Concentration Index) for Indian children. The framework by A. Wagstaff and E.van Doorslaer, 2003 is used for this...

This chapter is concerned with the distribution of personal wealth, which usually refers to the material assets that can be sold in the marketpace, although on occasion pension rights are also included. We summarise the available evidence on wealth distribution for a number of countries. This...

Inequality in the distribution of wealth may be explained by differences in work effort, ability, savings behavior, rates of return, taxes and transfers, and gift and bequests (private transfers). The relative importance of these factors has important implications for public policy. Policy...

Modern pressures on median income workers to cost minimize and strategically invest, including a low interest-earning bank savings account, suggest the possibility of stagnation in closing the gap of wealth differences among groups. James Curtis Jr annualizes salaries of interns, employees and...

Why would anyone want to use antitrust law as a wealth distribution device when far more explicit statutory tools are available for that purpose? One feature of antitrust is its open-textured, nonspecific statutes that are interpreted by judges. As a result, using antitrust to redistribute...

A necessary condition for mobility to reduce the popular desire for redistribution is a significant positive correlation between inequality and mobility. In Prieto et al. (2008), a significant positive relationship was found at the national level. The objective of this study is to establish...

The paper describes first the evolution in total household wealth in Italy over the period 1965-2010 before addressing the analysis of wealth inequality. On the basis of reconstructed data, we show that household wealth inequality declined until the beginning of the 1990s. It then grew...