By estimating the AR-Gini for a wide range of goods and services we aim to enhance our understanding of resource inequalities and their drivers, identify which resources have highest inequalities, and to explore trends in inequalities.
"These factors mean that high inequality can generate further high inequality and eventually poor economic growth," Professor Katz said.
Brazil, India and South Africa must generate sufficient jobs, above all in the industrial sector, to reduce high inequality and poverty.
We are more skeptical of government and willing to accept market outcomes, including high inequality and deep poverty.
What isn't fair is suggesting that improving and expanding pre-K education isn't a reasonable way to tackle high inequality and low social mobility.
All these countries also suffer from huge internal tensions due to high inequality and, in the case of India, growing corruption.
Since the 1990s, historians, economists, and other social scientists have sought to document and analyze the historical roots of Latin America's relatively high inequality and persistent poverty.
The result is higher inequality and a decision to squeeze living standards for low- and middle-income families at a time when rising prices are already outstripping wage growth.
In making the critical connection between high inequality and diminished mobility, I've often cited the work of the economist Miles Corak, who had a fine commentary on the topic in The New York Times on Sunday.
