This paper provides a broad picture of national, regional and global trends of inequality in length of life over the … of inequality measures for 201 countries at five-year intervals over the period under analysis. We estimate both absolute … and relative inequality measures which have the property of being additively decomposable. This property makes the …

How do changes in socio-economic inequality between ethnic groups affect interethnic ties in a divided society? I … principal findings. First, as inequality between ethnic groups increases, the prospects of interethnic marriages decline. Status … inequality in multiethnic societies may facilitate ethnic integration. Second, the effect of ethnic inequality is not uniform …

fiscal inequality across Indian states, the paper suggests a relatively more progressive transfer system and a developmental …

-based inequality to be published in a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies. It provides a brief introduction to legal …

Inequality and social exclusion receive considerable contemporary policy attention. In the field of international … development, inequality - both vertical (between individuals and households) and horizontal (between groups) - is a core concern … in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Despite considerable attention to horizontal inequality in both research …

In this paper, I quantify the contribution of a subpopulation to inequality. This is defined as the sum of the … contributions of its members, with these contributions computed as the impact on inequality of a small increase in the population … various attractive properties. I also discuss alternative approaches used in the literature of factor inequality …

A considerable body of research suggests that horizontal inequality between ethnic groups has major socioeconomic … implications, in particular for peace and economic development. Much of this work focuses on horizontal inequality as an … empirical reasons for treating horizontal inequality as a dependent variable and challenging assumptions of fixity. We first …

, that direct taxes and cash transfers are overall progressive and reduce inequality and poverty. Our disaggregated analyses …