Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be … Surveys, to revisit the question of whether inequality is associated with economic growth and, in particular, to examine … whether inequality of opportunity -- driven by circumstances at birth -- has a negative effect on subsequent growth. The …

Standard approaches to decomposing how much group differences contribute to inequality rarely show significant between …-group inequality, and are of limited use in comparing populations with different numbers of groups. This study applies an adaptation to …

This paper decomposes changes in inequality, which has in general been increasing in the transition economies of … determinants of inequality and assessing how it might evolve in the future. The empirical analysis relies on a set of inequality … household surveys recently put together for the World Bank study"Growth, Poverty and Inequality in Eastern Europe and the Former …

Using social tables, the author makes an estimate of global inequality (inequality among world citizens) in the early … 19th century. The analysis shows that the level and composition of global inequality have changed over the past two … centuries. The level has increased, reaching a high plateau around the 1950s, and the main determinants of global inequality …

Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries …-ante measures of inequality of economic opportunity (IEO) across 41 countries, and of the Human Opportunity Index (HOI) for 39 … countries. It also examines international correlations between these indices and output per capita, income inequality, and …

The paper presents an overview of calculations of global inequality, recently and over the long-run as well as main … decline in global inequality between world citizens since the Industrial Revolution. The decline however can be sustained only …

One of the most contentious issues of globalization is the effect of global economic integration on inequality and … developing world population living on less than $1 per day was cut in half since 1981. Trend #3: Global inequality (among … citizens of the world) has declined - modestly -- reversing a 200-year-old trend toward higher inequality. Trend #4: There is …

Measured by the Gini coefficient, income inequality in Brazil rose from 0.57 in 1981 to 0.63 in 1989, before falling … back to 0.56 in 2004. This latest figure would lower Brazil's world inequality rank from 2nd (in 1989) to 10th (in 2004 … the determinants of Brazil's distributional reversal over this period. The rise in inequality in the 1980s appears to have …

With the recent resurgence of interest in equity, inequality, and growth, the possibility of a negative relationship … between inequality and economic growth, has received renewed interest in the literature. Faced with the prospect that high … levels of inequality may persist, and give rise to poverty traps, policymakers are paying more attention to the …