In a relative deprivation framework, unless inequality is reduced, growth is associated with both higher satisfaction and higher deprivation. This may help explain the discontent with growth despite its...
在亚洲,国家间的收入不平等甚于国家内的收入不平等。与此相反,在非洲、拉丁美洲、西欧和北美,由于国家间的差异很小,因此国家内的不平等更突出。在国家按收入水平分为三组时,几乎没有重叠的现象 – 因为发展中国家很少 有人的收入达到富裕国家的收入标准。 Milanovic和Yitzhaki用119个国家的国民收入和支出分配数据解析了按大陆和按“地区”(根据收入水平分组的国家)划分的世界上个人收入之间的总的不平等。他们使用的基尼分解法可以精确划分(无剩余项)收入所得者的总基尼系数。...
This report analyzes the evolution of poverty and inequality in the Latin American and Caribbean region (LAC) from 1986 to 1996, with projections to 1998. It reviews the policies which have been advocated...
The effects of tax evasion on tax rates and government revenues have focused fresh attention on the question of tax administration. Because of the difficulties of measuring the consequences of good or...
The paper suggests a method which enables the user to identify commodities that all individuals who can agree on certain weak assumptions with regard to the social welfare function will agree upon as worth...
Although Egypt has been able to provide many of its citizens with cheap food, cheap oil and cheap shelter, the deficits in its budget and balance of payments may preclude government spending for these...
This paper uses the extended Gini inequality index to examine the sensitivity of measurements of impacts of migrant remittances on the distribution of household income by size to different value judgements...
This paper presents a simple method for analyzing the distributional effects of marginal changes in commodity taxes. The distributional effect of a tax is measured by its impact on the Gini coefficient...