In the socioeconomic development of each country, income rates constitute a measure of the economic situation. They are also the principle factor influencing social stratification. When discussing the income of European households in a regional approach, one may analyze changes, regional...

Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently used in Ghana, have become useful in providing quantitative measures of welfare distribution that enable a better understanding of the extent and nature of inequality. From these...

We decompose the redistributive effect of direct taxes into vertical, horizontal, and reranking components applying the methods of Urban and Lambert (Public Finance Review, 2008). In the first such application to the UK, and using yearly data covering 1977-2020, we find that redistributive...

O artigo analisa como, dada uma linha de pobreza, a proporcao de pobres, o indice de pobreza de Sen e o indice de pobreza de Foster, Greer e Thorbecke variam em funcao da media e do indice de Gini da distribuicao de renda. Determina-se a relacao entre pobreza absoluta, renda media e indice de...