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 …

Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between … 2006 and 2014, inequality was again on the rise. We apply decomposition techniques to analyse the proximate determinants of … labour income inequality and fiscal incidence analysis to estimate the first-order effects of taxes and social spending on …

-level activities, size-wise as well as state-wise, thereby creating some sort of inequality. Moreover, we also show that the aggregate …

What is the relationship between inequality and growth? This question has occupied and fascinated social scientists for … interplay between inequality and economic growth. Inequality might come in many forms: (top) incomes, wages, wealth, land, or … potential for growth to 'take off'. We consider causality running from inequality to growth; hence, the Kuznets hypothesis is …

Using illustrations from research on inequality, this paper offers evidence on the strengths of 'behavioural synthesis … and relative inequality have evolved from assumptions of income maximization to status-seeking competition, and to … conclude that methodological pluralism, i.e. scientific integration, is necessary when it comes to understanding inequality and …

In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study … provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and … Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the …

In this paper, the method of deriving the parameter ε of inequality aversion from a parametric distribution of incomes … constant inequality aversion utility function and that incomes obey the generalised beta distribution of the second kind GB2(a …) interval. The mid-point εmid of this interval specifies inequality aversion of the median socialdecision maker. The maximum …

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

We show that measures of inequality of opportunity (IOP) fully consistent with Roemer (1998)'s IOP theory can be …