inequality in their home country until recently, especially in Haiti. The known amount of remittances sent to Haiti by the … paper, we provide some elements that can help understand what are the consequences of these gifts on poverty and inequality …

redistribution in a comparative setting. We use micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study to examine household market inequality … increase in primary household inequality in all 20 countries over the last 25 years (except Ireland). In most countries, the … income inequality, although they appear to have become less effective in doing so since the mid-1990s. We find that the …

income inequality by 2030. However, the potential reduction can be fully accounted for by the projected convergence in …

The relationship between economic development and income inequality is not neutral vis-à-vis the role of the financial … inequality (e.g. Banarjee and Newman, 1993; Piketty, 1997), taking in account the asymmetric impact of the financial … inequality. In this paper we try to analyze the effect of introducing profit-sharing financial contract between banks and …

. But income inequality is undoubtedly diminished with the practice in sericulture. …

assesses impact of agricultural land on poverty and inequality in rural Vietnam. It is found that agricultural land increases … holders by around 5.6 and 6.6 percent, respectively. However, agricultural land increases rural inequality, albeit at very …

The principal contribution of this article is that it provides evidence of recent trends of inequality in Guyana, but … the article goes beyond this and describes the evolution of inequality since 1974 to 2013. This is done within a Kaleckian … framework to derive profit and wage rates, since recent Gini coefficients data are absent. The evidence implies that inequality …

types of workers, low- and high-skilled. This heterogeneity allows an endogenous analysis of inequality generated by child … between child labour and inequality. The basic intuition behind this result arises from the interdependence between child …