changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality's actual dimension, and thereby help perpetuate it. To … avoid this, the present paper discusses a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality: the ratio of the income … suggested 'Palma ratio' dividing the income share of the top 10 per cent income earners by that of the bottom 40 per cent's. …

In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … multidimensional deprivation using the MDI is that this index is sensitive to inequality and can be fully broken down by deprivation …

to changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality’s actual dimension, and thus help perpetuate it …. To avoid this, the ratio of the income share of the top 5 per cent over that of the bottom 40 per cent, denominated Palma … v.2, could function as a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality. …

inequality relate to changes in consumption and poverty. In addition, we examine whether there has been convergence in inequality …Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was estimated in the past literature are the motivation for our …

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