formation, leading improvements in poverty and inequality indicators enabling greater economic and social development. …

This unique study discusses the theory of taxation in Islam and the role of Zakat in an Islamic economy. Zakat is a …, foreign debt, balance of payments, FDI and the on the development oriented variables like inequality and poverty are also …

Poverty and inequality around the world has been rising over the last three decades and the attainment of the … many theories and models including but not limited to Rostow’s Stages of Growth Theory, Harrod-Domar Model, Solow’s Growth … Model, Dependency Theory, Lewis Two Sector Model, Neo-colonial Dependence Model, False-Paradigm Model, and Dualistic …

We model the evolution of age-dependent personal income distribution and inequality as expressed by the Gini ratio. In … our framework, inequality is an emergent property of a theoretical model we develop for the dynamics of individual incomes … in the Gini ratio since 2000. In the youngest age group (from 15 to 24 years), however, the level of income inequality …

The Inequality Process (IP) is a particle system model similar to that of the Kinetic Theory of Gases. The IP is a …

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that income and consumption inequality in Poland increased substantially … income inequality increased in 1989 but subsequently declined to pretransition levels. The distribution of consumption … income inequality during the transition. However, the relative well-being of different socioeconomic groups was altered and …

viewpoint of world systems theory such tendencies are not a coincidental movement along the historic ups and downs of social … inequality. Established economics teaches us that for economic gaps to be bridged, a process of convergence sets in that was … of further regional income concentration and inequality, thus blocking the hopes of the poorer segments of the East …