This paper establishes the principles which should govern the welfare and inequality analysis of heterogeneous income …. However, inequality and welfare comparisons will usually be well defined only if equivalent incomes are obtained using … constant scale factors; and researchers will need to distinguish clearly between inequality of nominal incomes and inequality …

We describe a new method of facilitating inequality and poverty analysis of grouped distributional data by allowing … counterparts, then by comparing the true and generated values of the Gini coefficient and other inequality indices. The results …

city’s sociospatial inequality, degradation of the central districts and widespread irregularity, it illustrates how these …

approach is also employed to rigorously examine the poverty-growth-inequality triangle. Finally, various simple but useful and …

insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …

land and housing bring little gain to mean consumption and play little role in explaining inequality. Inheritance of non … more important to adult welfare than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident. …