the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency of … high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising … inequality to increase poverty. Based on the basic needs approach, an analysis-of-covariance model is estimated, with the …

This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … of income inequality, deals with preliminary concepts and definitions; a visual representation of inequality (the Lorenz … curve); real-valued indices of inequality; properties of inequality indices; some specific inequality measures; and the …

-level income inequality. Although poor health and high inequality are key features of many developing countries, most of the … inverted-U association between self-reported health status and income inequality, which suggests that high inequality in a … community poses threats to health. We also find that high inequality increases the probability of health-compromising behavior …