Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016 is the first of an annual flagship report that will inform a global audience … accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. This edition will also document trends in inequality and … experiences, and synthesize the rigorous evidence on public policies that can shift inequality in a way that bolsters poverty …

The gap between rich and poor keeps widening. Growth, if any, has disproportionally benefited higher income groups … while lower income households have been left behind. This long-run increase in income inequality not only raises social and … the rest of society. Lower income people have been prevented from realising their human capital potential, which is bad …

Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016 is the first of an annual flagship report that will inform a global audience … accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. This edition will also document trends in inequality and … experiences, and synthesize the rigorous evidence on public policies that can shift inequality in a way that bolsters poverty …