Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded … as the first line of defense against self-interest and inequality. Absent a strong and clear link between inequality and … justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …

analyzes the potential effects of fuel prices on poverty and inequality in Paraguay. Using microsimulation methods and based on … the Commitment to Equity framework, it estimates the impact of higher fuel prices on welfare, poverty, and inequality …The recent global increases in fuel prices threaten the gains in poverty reduction that countries like Paraguay have …

We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … remained incomplete and was unevenly spread over the population even 22 months after the start of the pandemic. Poverty more … than doubled during the lockdown and even after almost two years was slightly higher than before the pandemic. Inequality …

In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …

inequality sensitive view of multi-dimensional poverty when only ordinal (dichotomized) variables are available. We use such an …, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, shedding thus some light on gender differences in poverty and inequality in those … multidimensional poverty in Central America are higher among females; inequality, however, is somewhat higher among males. …

In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … multidimensional deprivation using the MDI is that this index is sensitive to inequality and can be fully broken down by deprivation …

Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases … poverty in 4 countries using a US$1.25/day PPP poverty line, in 8 countries using a US$2.50/day line, and in 15 countries …

This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the … poverty reducing as the one in force (or more in some dimensions), and a generator of greater welfare. …

. Inequality and poverty changes were not affected by imputation. We took advantage of the methodology proposed to input rents and … methods. In 2015, 2.5 per cent of the sample had per capita incomes imputed, resulting in slightly higher levels of inequality …