Product Description: Inside Inequality in the Arab Republic of Egypt: Facts and Perceptions Across People, Time, and Space comprises four papers prepared in the framework of the Egypt inequality study fi nanced by the World Bank. The first paper, by Sherine Al-Shawarby, reviews the studies on inequality in Egypt since the 1950s with the double objective of illustrating the importance attributed to inequality through time and of presenting and compare the main published statistics on inequality...read more

Addresses just how to measure global inequality among individuals, and shows that inequality is shaped by complex forces often working in different directions. This work analyzes income distribution worldwide using household survey data from more than 100 countries.

Product Description: The process of social policy formation in emerging market economies has only recently gained the attention of researchers. In the wake of the implementation of broad reforms based on macroeconomic stabilization, market liberalization, and enterprise privatization, questions arose as to why the outcomes for working people in those nations have been less than hoped for...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The sweeping political and economic changes of the past decade—including the spread of democracy, pro-market policies, and economic globalization—have dramatically increased the demand in developing countries for social programs such as unemployment compensation, pensions, and income supplements for the poor...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Declining incomes and growing income inequality have led to a rise in poverty in the transition economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. This study examines poverty and social assistance in six countries - Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Russia, and Kyrgyz Republic - to compare the poverty profiles and the correlates of poverty between the two regions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Milanovic, Branko (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book starts from the premise that economic liberalization - reduced state interference in economic life - is the common element in the current trend towards privatization and deregulation in the West and economic reform and restructuring in the East...read more