-old commitment of contributing 0.7 per cent of gross national income to supporting the development of countries in the Global South …-for example, to end poverty; (ii) proposes a new way to raise and govern international public funds; (iii) discusses the possible …

This paper examines the evolution of China's industrial and occupational structure in the last two decades and its … impact on wage inequality. We find that non-routine cognitive and interpersonal tasks have increased, while routine cognitive … tasks first increased and then declined. Occupation structural change is accompanying rising wage inequality. The wage …

Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and … translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty … global inequality by leading inequality scholars, aligning these to comprehensive reviews of inequality trends in five of the …

This book explores trends of inequality and poverty in China, identifies their causes and assesses their consequences …, analyzing in detail the regional/personal variation in incomes, measures of human wellbeing, the gap between the coastal regions …

Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for …, and their information base with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate … measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes …