statistically significant and robust to changes in the time interval, inequality measures, and data sources. In-depth country …

rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On … completion is higher. However, a small additional impact on girls’ education due to the Covid-19 induced rise in teenage … pregnancy is observed in some countries. Intergenerational mobility of education decreases from 1 to close to 50 percent …

Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases … education spending tends to be progressive only in relative terms (i.e. equalizing but not pro-poor). Health spending is always …

We analyse the evolution and proximate determinants of labour income inequality in Mexico between 1989 and 2017. Labour … income inequality increased between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2006. What happened after 2006 is subject to … uncertainty. The national labour force survey shows a steady decline and the income expenditure survey suggests that inequality …

economies: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. We show that the short-term impact on income inequality and poverty can be …

particular the analysis of (a) efficiency and equity, (b) growth and distribution, (c) recent changes in inequality, (d) recent …This paper investigates the reasons why inequality, and distribution more generally, have come to the fore in the … work on the complex patterns of inequality change in developing countries, and (e) inequality between countries. All of …

rising income inequality experienced in the 1984-94 period. Whereas household characteristics explain the largest share of … the changes in inequality, the deteriorating conditions in the Southern region are found to account for a significant … portion of rising income inequality in the country …