Measuring Economic Inequality: Deprivation, Economising and Possessing

A Distributional Approach to Measuring Changes in Economic Inequality

Social scientists and economists are increasingly interested in techniques for comparing changes in distributional shape as well as changes in mean-levels. We present a statistical approach to interdistributional comparison that relies on the relative distribution: a graphical and statistical tool for representing location and shape differences, applicable to both continuous and discrete data. ...

Globalization And Inequality In Different Economic Blocks

Economic inequality and economic growth

The paper enquires into the relationship between economic inequality and economic growth, but different from others, it also studies the relationship between inequality and economic growth in the situation where consideration of effect of factor movement is included. The paper tends to answer the questions such as whether inequality should be eradicated completely. Panel data models are used fo...

Measuring Inequality

¥ Part of the LSE Economics Series, published by Oxford University Press ¥ This book is dedicated to the memory of my parents.

Economic crises and Inequality

Sustainability for a society means long-term viability, but also the ability to cope with economic crises and disasters. Just as with natural disasters, we can minimize the chance of them occurring and set in place policies to protect the world’s citizens against their consequences. This paper is concerned with the impact of economic crises on the inequality of resources and with the impact of ...