Purpose – Measures of inequality determine the effectiveness of social and economic policies aimed at reducing … inequality and to design effective intervention policies. The purpose of this paper is to focus on poverty reduction and welfare … improving impacts of reducing income inequality in the case of Fiji. Using Fiji's Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2002 …

institutions by providing empirical evidence on the relationship between institutions and inequality.  …

Some evidence for the nexus of child care services, labour force participation, fertility, and family income inequality …

unit. This increasing inequality seems to have been due to deregulation, not to the effects of technological change, and …

income inequality. Economic growth in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s was seen as a panacea for reducing poverty. While the key to … levels of poverty and inequality. In most cases the evidence on the impact of SAPs shows that despite sustained economic … of poverty and income inequality. The criticism of the free market approach is its failure to take account of …

In this article, first, we show how equity considerations, in the guise of inequality of income, enters into a social …, contrary to the popular belief, we contend that the degree of inequality is not an appropriate indicator of the degree of … non‐monotonic function of inequality. It is also demonstrated that the sociological term “relative deprivation” is …

of mass production towards the new global concept of lean production as an explanation for the increasing inequality in …

automatic operation of the market forces, in order to prevent the trend towards increasing spatial inequality; second the state …