fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se …

growth and changes in global income inequality and poverty. The authors find that rapid growth in China (despite a downward … inequality. The impact of these twocountries is similarly critical with respect to global poverty reduction. … persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a …

This paper focuses on the role of institutions in the fight against poverty and inequality. Our view of institutions … to the concepts of poverty, inequality and institutions are expounded on a priori reasoning, empirical analysis with LAC …-income poverty à la capability approach of Amartya Sen) allows a rich discussion of policy interventions. While both orientations as …

This paper studies the joint effect of fractionalization and inequality on the size of government. Within a political … fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups have the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using …

main patterns of inequality, between and within the social groupings. We find that the effects of peer pressure on within …-group inequality differ between groups. We also find that wealth and consumption inequality increase within groups who aspire to match … social targets from a higher class, despite a reduction in within-group inequality in hours and earnings. …

the idea of between-group inequality to situations where data on economic and ethnolinguistic distances between pairs of …

This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Theoretically … consider the interdependence of decentralization and fragmentation as inequality decreasing effects of decentralization are …

financial literacy and business ownership for the increase in wealth inequality between college and non-college households. …