I investigate the consequences of income fluctuations caused by commodity price changes on happiness levels in regions … price fluctuations but only on financial satisfaction, suggesting that a mere compensation of income losses does not fully …. The results indicate that exposure to income fluctuations, even to a positive one, is associated with a notable decrease …

There is increasing scholarly evidence that financialization has contributed to rising income inequality, especially by … concentrating income among the affluent and rich. There is less empirical research examining who is losing out to the affluent. This … employment; credit expansion; and financial crises) affect upper-tail (measured as the ratio between the 90th and 50th income …

poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …

This poverty and equity report provides updated poverty and inequality statistics from the Grenada Survey of Living … Grenada, examine poverty and inequality trends, and develop a basket of goods and services that can be used to estimate the …