Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and … global inequality by leading inequality scholars, aligning these to comprehensive reviews of inequality trends in five of the … world’s largest developing countries - Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa. Each is a persistently high or newly …

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 … intensity are associated with lower wages. While the return to education has become the largest contributor to wage inequality …

This paper examines income mobility in developing countries. We start by synthesizing findings from the available … panels constructed from cross-section data. We echo earlier literature in pointing to substantial movement across income … northern India over seven decades. We describe patterns of poverty dynamics and economic mobility in the village, and we …