?reduced-form? version that is expressed in terms of inequality and mean income. This shows the relationship between the … large class of inequality measures that includes the Gini. These results do not require differentiability of the social …

evaluation comprise the alleviation of poverty and the reduction in income inequality, whilst the diversity of opinions about …

This paper analyses the evolution of inequality and poverty in Brazil during the 1980s, using a large repeated cross …-section household survey data set. We calculate standard scalar measures of inequality and poverty, together with decile means and … performed to infer population dominance, generating robust welfare and inequality comparisons. Analogously, mixed stochastic …

We examine the way in which across-the-board additions to incomes are perceived to change inequality. Using a … questionnaire we investigate whether subjective inequality rankings correspond to the principle of scale-independence of translation …

This paper deals with the effect of inequality on subsequent long run growth. Using a threshold regression analysis, we … find two threshold variables, namely human capital and inequality. Three clubs are then identified. One of our results is … relationships, either negative or positive, between inequality and growth. …

used to establish patterns of wealth inequality within countries. Imputations are again performed for countries lacking … cent. Between-country differences in wealth are two-thirds of global inequality according to the Gini coefficient …, indicating a larger role for withincountry inequality than in the case of income according to recent estimates. …

be a good estimator of social well-being and economic development. El Potencial de Calidad de Vida (Quality Life …

This paper deals with the assessment of inequality in the distribution of voting power. As voting procedures are … modeled as simple games and power evaluated through power indices, two approaches are possible to deal with inequality in this … the first approach to found axiomatically some inequality indices in this specific context and discusses some difficulties …

the 1996 World Development Report. In 18% of the pair-wise comparisons of inequality in different countries the situation …This paper looks at both within country and among country inequality. In the spirit of Dalton[1920] and Atkinson[1970 …] this paper reports estimates of the welfare loss arising from inequality. The paper also explores the implications of …