This paper assesses the additional spending required to make substantial progress towards achieving the SDGs in … are derived using the IMF SDG costing methodology. We find that to achieve the SDGs in these sectors would require …

progress in SDGs by 2030. Benin and Rwanda are presented in detail through case studies. The main lessons are: i) average … sources given the scale of additional spending, and iv) strong national ownership of SDGs is key and should be reflected in …

Is there a one-size-fits-all approach to inclusive growth? We look at four key case studies across advanced and … countries the key components of inclusive growth models, outcomes from these models, and the road ahead in the respective … role of social assistance and commodity boom in Brazil, and the inequality puzzle in Egypt. The paper finds that there is a …

poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in … to 2030 under different assumptions about growth and inequality. This allows for quantifying the interdependence of the … inequality and relies on the Model-based Recursive Partitioning machine-learning algorithm to model how growth in GDP is passed …

Over the past decades ASEAN countries have experienced rapid economic growth accompanied by a dramatic fall in poverty … rates, but income inequality has not retreated. This research aims at identifying factors which could contribute to more … equally distributed growth in ASEAN. To measure inclusive growth, we use a variable integrating per capita income growth and …

This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing … three deciles, respectively). Although existing direct fiscal transfers have poverty-reducing effects, they are too small …

convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty to an acceptable margin, there appears to be little concrete policy … possibly rising inequality would ensure that a great many would fall through the cracks, and not benefit from high growth, even …This paper focuses on the role of institutions in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are …

distribution, and this distributional change lowered the pro-poor impact of growth substantially. Without this change, poverty …This paper investigates the distributional changes that limited pro-poor growth in the past two decades in Sub …-Saharan Africa; these changes went undetected by standard inequality measures. By developing a new decomposition technique based on a …

, economic growth, and poverty alleviation. The study shows that there is no consensus among the existing studies, which are … mostly focused on industrialized economies, on the relationship between public investment and economic growth. Studies that … investigate the relationship between physical infrastructure and economic growth mostly conclude that there exists a positive …