This book joins four papers prepared in the framework of the Egypt inequality study financed
by the World Bank. The first paper prepared by Sherine Al-Shawarby reviews the studies on …

This report provides a review of empirical knowledge about income inequality in the Arab
region, focusing primarily on the issues of data and measurement, and the characterization …

This paper provides a review of empirical knowledge about income inequality in the Arab
region, focusing primarily on the issues of data and measurement, and the characterization …

This study presents an analysis of various facets of inequality in Egypt using a political
economy approach to understand how inequalities are reproduced in the Egyptian …

This article surveys and discusses prominent protagonists of the debate on socio‐economic
inequality in the Arab region, with a special focus on the World Bank and Egypt. According to …

The vision of India emerging as a Giant in the global economic scene seems to dominate the
contemporary discussion on its growth performance, leading to coinage of phrases like …

The paper assesses the levels and determinants of economic inequality in 12 Arab countries
using harmonized household survey micro-data. It focuses on the sources of rural–urban, as …

The objective of this study is to measure and explain the extent of regional economic
inequalities in Jordan. To do so, this study uses the raw data of two national household …

Social justice has been a central theme in the political turmoil affecting the Middle East and
North Africa (MENA). Perplexingly, standard measures of inequality are not particularly high …

Most explanations of the recent political upheavals in Egypt since 2011 include a reference
to rising inequality, but the usual indicators of income inequality in Egypt do not support that …