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A game of snakes and ladders with loaded dice: Socioeconomic class and poverty in South AfricaSouth Africa is often cited as the most unequal economy in the world...
Economic inequality Poverty Dynamics social stratificationJournal Article
The effect of top incomes on inequality in South AfricaThis article is currently available for early online view. South Africa exhibits extreme levels of income inequality and is ranked as one of the most unequal countries in the world...
Income distribution Economic inequality personal income taxJournal Article
Introduction to Special Issue on: ‘Inequalities in the Least Developed Countries – Some Lessons from Africa’Part of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries
Economic inequality Multidimensional poverty Inequality and Well-beingBlog
Measuring inequality in middle-income countriesIncome inequality is the result of complex processes with multiple interacting driving forces but understanding those drivers in emerging economies is particularly difficult because of data and analytical challenges...
Global inequality Economic inequality Top incomesWorking Paper
Inequality in India: A review of levels and trendsThis paper contributes to the literature by reviewing levels, trends, and structure of inequality since the early 1990s in India...
Consumption Data sources Economic inequalityResearch Brief
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The effect of real exchange rate volatility on income distribution in South AfricaThis study investigates the effect of real exchange rate volatility on the distribution of income between labour and capital in South Africa. Both symmetric and asymmetric effects are considered...
Functional distribution Income distribution Economic inequalityPanel discussion
Open dialogue on inequality in the 21st century
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Measuring Inequality in the 21st CenturyThe Human Development Report Office , LIS , the Stone Center at the City University of New York (CUNY), UNU-WIDER and the World Inequality Lab will host a symposium on Measuring Inequality in the 21st Century. The 2-day event will be held 28-29...
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Snakes and ladders and loaded dice: Poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa, 2008–2017Longitudinal surveys can give insight into economic mobility, which allows us to understand how markers of (dis)advantage are consequential in determining material conditions in the present, and how these markers structure economic opportunity over t...
Economic inequality Poverty Dynamics social stratificationWorking Paper
Financing the Zambia social cash transfer scale-up: A tax benefit microsimulation analysis based on MicroZAMODThis paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia’s Social Cash Transfer programme could take as its expansion continues during the period of the country’s Seventh National Devel...
Economic inequality Poverty Social cash transfersWorking Paper
Promoting education under distortionary taxation: Equality of opportunity versus welfarismHow does the public provision of education and the deployment of distortionary tax and subsidy instruments differ when the government’s objective is conventional welfarist compared to when the objective is the non-welfarist one of equality of o...
Educational subsidies equality of opportunity Income taxBlog
Why are workers getting a smaller share of the cake in Mexico?As with many other developed and emerging economies, in recent decades Mexico has experienced a long-term decline in the labour income share. In other words, wages have decreased compared with other sources of income such as capital income...
Income inequality Earnings inequality WagesBlog
Research that matters: A report from the stakeholder workshop - 15 November 2018, Pretoria, South Africa
I found myself in the third-floor conference rooms of a Pretoria hotel for a meeting with economists, researchers, and policymakers involved in the SA-TIED programme ...
Economic inequality Data revolution TaxWorking Paper
A new inequality estimate for urban India?: Using house prices to estimate inequality in MumbaiThis paper applies a novel inequality estimation method to household consumption expenditure in Mumbai, India...
House prices Household consumption Household surveyWorking Paper
A macroeconomic perspective on Asian developmentMacroeconomic strategies and policies have differed significantly among Asian countries over the last fifty years, and yet some common issues recur despite their immense diversity in inherited historical initial conditions, differences in political s...
Unemployment Labour market State