This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the … empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the …

A natural way of viewing an inequality or a poverty measure is in terms of the vector distance between an actual …

This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some … of the likely factors that explain the reduction in income inequality that has taken place in the country in the last …

insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …

The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government.s stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …

The majority of the world.s poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially …

, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel … of data for more than 80 countries from 1981 to 2005, we find that income instability results in a lower poverty …

urbanization, and speculates on its impact on the quality of life and poverty in the context of Asian countries. After experiencing …