improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth … reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis …

improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth … reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis …

Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring …

. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … inequality levels. We also find greater inequality to have negative impact on economic growth and poverty reduction. Our results …Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few …

pandemic reduced household income, increased the poverty rate, and worsened wage equality. It increased the proportion of below …

warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies … consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … vulnerability especially in poorer Sub-Saharan Africa, there is inclusive evidence on climate change impacts on inequality. Further …

signs of a deceleration in the pace of inequality reduction in Latin America. This paper argues that the deceleration is the … result of two set of reasons. First, several of the driving factors of the fall in inequality in the 2000s have lost strength … early 2010s, making further reductions in inequality more difficult. …

beginning of the 20th century. Until the 1970s, the country experienced a fall in inequality in spite of lower income growth …. Since then, inequality has generally increased possibly as a result of large-scale shocks such as macroeconomic crises and …

period inequality increased substantially. Two types of episodes have shaped this upward trend: deep macroeconomic crises and … periods of sudden and intense economic liberalization. The sizeable rise in inequality in the 1990s seems to be associated to … subsequent recoveries contributed to the volatility of inequality along this upward trend. The large macroeconomic crisis of 2001 …

This paper documents patterns and recent developments on different dimensions of inequality in Latin America and the … Caribbean (LAC). New comparative international evidence confirms that LAC is a region of high inequality, although maybe not the … highest in the world. Income inequality has fallen in the 2000s, suggesting a turning point from the significant increases of …