significant correlation and regression coefficients which suggest a link between inflation and inequality, while poverty appears …This paper investigates possible explanations for the increases in inequality observed in Brazil during the 1980s …. While the static decompositions of inequality by household characteristics reveal that education and race of the household …

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 …

indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper …

the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …

the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …

Does more education really mean less poverty and less inequality? How much less? What are the transmission mechanisms …-based policies aimed at increasing educational attainment would have substantial impacts on poverty reduction, but muted effects on … inequality. These results are highly dependent on assumptions about the behaviour of returns to education, both for the …