This study examines the gender-differentiated effects of Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) on households in Zimbabwe during 1991. Interviews and focus groups were conducted among 120 randomly selected households in Kambuzuma, a densely populated suburb of Harare with mostly Black residents with a considerable range in income. Interviews were conducted in mid-1991 and reinterviews were con...

Africa is the world’s second largest and second most populous continent with about one billion people. Mobile phones are a major source of communication and means of taking information and technology to rural and remote areas of the continent. With low-cost and readily available mobile phones, underprivileged, low-income earners and rural dwellers can also participate in the Information and Com...

In Peru, like in many other developing countries, employers have the legal obligation to compensate workers who are dismissed due to no fault of their own. Is this an efficient mechanism to provide income support to the unemployed? This paper seeks an answer to this question using individual records from a household survey with a panel structure. Relying on five coverage indicators, the paper s...

The demographic transition changes the age composition of a population, affecting resource allocations at the household and aggregate level. If age profiles of income, consumption, savings and investments were stable and estimable for the entire population, they might suggest how the demographic transition would affect inputs to growth. However, existing macro and micro simulations are estimate...

In 2009, the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission recommended the establishment of a universal dental program for Australia. This recommendation was not implemented and the Australian Government’s 2012/13 budget allocated $515.3million to improve dental services, with something of a shorter term focus on the needs of low income earners. After 16 difficult years for states’ and territo...

We show that the dramatically increasing share of income going to top earners is consistent with the rise of the "power law economy" and argue this may reflect networks and increased digitization. Specifically, tax data (1960-2008) show an increasing dispersion of incomes in the portion of the distribution drawn from a power law, as opposed to the long-established log-normal distribution. We pr...

We construct a political equilibrium in which employers and labour unions bargain over labour contracts, wage-earners and profit-earners lobby the government for taxation and labour market regulation, and labour market legislation must be accepted by the majority of voters. We show that the voters rule out profit sharing, because otherwise the government would capture all the gain. Furthermore,...

A recently published systematic review identifies a number of patient-, family-, physician-, and disease-related factors that account for the presence of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) at the onset of disease in children and youth (1). We propose a unifying hypothesis for these factors that the frequency of DKA at disease onset may be related to income inequality. Income inequality is defined as t...

Abstract Despite its egalitarian past, in recent decades Israel followed the footsteps of United States terms growing inequality levels and reduced welfare arrangements. It is assumed, therefore, to have similar trends increasing residential segregation between income groups. This study focuses on metropolitan area Tel-Aviv, Israel’s financial cultural centre examines change spatial distributio...