Using the most recent available data on a sample of 40 developing countries, this paper addresses the effects of oil rent on inequality. Mobilizing a dynamic panel data specification over the period 1996–2008, the econometric results yield two important findings. First, there is a non-linear...

Using data from a survey of rural households in China, this article examines the impacts of non-farm activity on living standard of farmers and on rural income distribution with a micro-economic analysis. Our results show that the participation in non-farm activity alleviates both inequality and...

Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and by this way is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the...

This paper systematises the method initiated by Burtless (1999) and provides a general framework for decomposing inequality by factor components, which has the double advantage over usual decomposition procedures to allow for a decomposition of income distribution changes and to distinguish...