Official tabulations from household survey data suggest rising income inequality in post-reform rural China, a trend of … increase in inequality in 1985-90 vanishes when market-based valuation methods are used and allowances are made for regional … cost-of-living differences. The data revisions also suggest somewhat different explanations for rising inequality. Nonfarm …

One of the most contentious issues of globalization is the effect of global economic integration on inequality and … developing world population living on less than $1 per day was cut in half since 1981. Trend #3: Global inequality (among … citizens of the world) has declined - modestly -- reversing a 200-year-old trend toward higher inequality. Trend #4: There is …

income inequality in rural Egypt. After pinpointing the importance of nonfarm income to the rural poor, the author decomposes … income represents the most important inequality-reducing source of income, agricultural income represents the most important … inequality-increasing source. A 1 percent marginal increase in nonfarm income will cause the Gini coefficient of overall income …

Differing value judgments in measuring inequality underlie the conflicting factual claims about how much poor people … relative inequality versus absolute inequality, vertical inequalities versus horizontal inequalities, and whether they are … consistently individualistic in assessing the extent of inequality. The value judgments on these issues made by both sides need …

differences between functionals of two income distributions (such as inequality or poverty measures) into shares because of … Brazilian income distribution and those of Mexico and the United States, and find that most of Brazil's excess income inequality …

employment to inequality and income growth over the period of rapid economic growth in the 1990s following market reforms. If … change Vietnamese society, in particular its impact on income inequality within and between communities. The author shows … that standard methods for calculating income inequality can be severely biased due to measurement error when decomposing …

The transition from planned to market economy has witnessed one of the biggest and fastest increases in inequality ever … recorded. Onaverage, inequality in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union increased from a Gini coefficient of 25-28 (below … years. In some countries, such as Bulgaria, Russia, and Ukraine, the increase in inequality has been even more dramatic …