Economic inequality across socio-demographic groups in the Arab region has been suggested to be high and persistent. This paper assesses the main dimensions of this inequality and their incidence across the consumption expenditure distribution in years surrounding the Arab uprisings. The paper...

This study investigates evidence of measurement errors among households with the highest expenditures in eleven harmonized national household-expenditure surveys from five Arab countries: Egypt 2008, 2010 and 2012, Jordan 2006 and 2010, Palestine 2007, 2010 and 2011, Sudan 2009, and Tunisia 2005...

By all accounts, income inequality in Egypt is low and had been declining during the decade that preceded the 2011 revolution. As the Egyptian revolution was partly motivated by claims of social injustice and inequalities, this seems at odds with a low level of income inequality. Moreover, while...

Inequality of opportunity (IOp) in education concerns the influence of circumstances that children were born into on their educational achievement. Earlier literature has shown that IOp in the Arab region for the most part is considerably high (Salehi-Isfahani et al., 2014). This paper updates...

A disquieting fact, that motivated a renewed interest toward the understanding of the distributional features, in both the academic and policy environment, is the increase in inequality in many industrialized countries over the last decades, accompanied by a general increase of the social...

[Introduction] From a money-metric perspective, poverty is a crystal-clear concept. A household is considered to be poor (poverty is typically estimated for households, not for individuals) if the total income or expenditure of its members lies below a specific threshold (referred to as the...