Across the globe, a rise in income inequality has been experienced for the last two decades, particularly in developing countries. This problem of income inequality poses a challenge to Africa’s ability to attain the United Nations (UN) Sustainment Deve
Fig. 9: Impact of urbanization on national income inequality by country groups with different urbanization policies. a Country group with anti-urbanization policy. b Country group with pro-urbanization policy. This further examines how urbanization policies affect national income inequality. The plots ar...
Society always mobilizes for conflict; whether class or ethnic mobilization depends on the interaction between vertical and horizontal inequality, particularly though effects on the subgroup sharing neither characteristic with the government. Waste is inevitable, and after mobilization expenditure is â...
The concentration of extreme wealth in the hands of a rich group of people in a country alongside abject poverty calls for better redistribution of national wealth. Many use the so-called Gini coefficient to determine income inequality. But this is a better method than simply looking for expensiv...
The purpose of this paper is therefore to contribute to our understanding of the impact of trade agreements on household income and income inequality by examining what our trade models reveal about the impact of several different types of trade agreements on income inequality in a country, in ...
Income inequality refers to how unevenly income is distributed in a population. The less equal the distribution, the greater the income inequality.
ii) that of the measurement of economic complexity linked to trade; iii) that of the quantification of income inequality within a country and its regions; iv) that of the quantification of a territory's environmental sustainability, with a focus on emissions generated by the intra-national and ...
whose preliminary version appeared in the form of a technical report by Brazauskas et al. (2023), further advances this line of research by showing how naturally percentile-based indices arise in this relativistic context, and how they facilitate inequality measurement, especially in the recent-pas...
Another inequality stamp: The median wealth per adult in the United States for 2023 was $112,157. In the highest-ranking country—Luxembourg—it was $372,258.5 Key Takeaways The United States is the wealthiest country in the world in terms of total global wealth percentage. It also has the...
Altogether, it is difficult to assess whether there is a relationship between income inequality and the size of achievement gradients by looking at national trends over time within a single country because there are few degrees of freedom for isolating relationships. Our third research question ...