Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality …, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense …

rise in income inequality. Poverty has increased sharply with an estimated 18.5% of the population on incomes below the …

This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the … correlation between the two variables is rather low in international perspective. Urban inequality as measured by the Gini …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three … series of data sets. Our focus is on both urban and rural inequality, as well as the urban-rural gap, with the objective of … summarizing several “first-order” empirical patterns concerning the trajectory of inequality through the reform period. We …

paper analyzes the sensitivity of inequality and poverty indicators to the adjustments made by ECLAC so as to enable a … leads to important changes in the top-end of the distribution and to an overestimation in the main inequality indicators in …

This chapter examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. It first … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The chapter also provides a …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …

This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the … correlation between the two variables is rather low in international perspective. Urban inequality as measured by the Gini …