-government poverty rates climb by three to four percentage points once we account for households’ medical expenses. We find that …

The isograph methodology is developed here with associated distributions, indicators of inequality, additional results … inequality analyses with a larger conceptualization of "morphology of inequality," not reduced to a Gini (or the like) measure. …

the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

inequality for a set of countries that are less covered in the empirical literature, mostly due to the lack of appropriate data … of benchmark middle- and high-income countries. We also run country-level regressions to correlate the inequality …

There is increasing scholarly evidence that financialization has contributed to rising income inequality, especially by … percentiles) and lower-tail (measured as the ratio between the 50th and 10th income percentiles) income inequality. Using concepts … income inequality by creating more unequal market incomes while simultaneously reducing redistribution and social transfers …

are for income inequality and relative poverty. To bridge this gap, we provide new evidence on the basis of the best … countries. We find that for some countries Gini coefficients and headcount poverty ratios are statistically significantly … Gini coefficients by 2% for Italy, 3% for Columbia and by 4% for Georgia, while it would increase the headcount poverty …

zero. Using the estimated optimal weights, we compute estimates of true income per capita and $1/day poverty rates for the … developing world and its regions. We get poverty estimates that are substantially lower and fall substantially faster than those … of Chen and Ravallion (2010) or of the survey-based poverty literature more generally. Our result is mainly driven by the …

This article introduces fiscal impoverishment as a novel framework for comparative poverty research. We invert standard … analyses of welfare state policy and household poverty by focusing not on poverty alleviation but poverty creation and … finance the public sector serve to push households (further) into poverty. We estimate that across rich democracies on average …