development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …

private capital markets can be accessed and thus official development assistance is becoming of lesser importance over time as …

Most Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries have accepted, in principle at least, the 50-year …-old commitment of contributing 0.7 per cent of gross national income to supporting the development of countries in the Global South …. But what if all countries made a universal development commitment, meaning a scaled contribution? We propose a new …

Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 is noted; the addition of a goal for full employment in a reformulation of the MDGs in 2005 did … not lead to a change in focus in official development assistance (ODA). If the growing concern for employment and … inequality is taken seriously, a refocus of development efforts is necessary, combining a greater share of development assistance …

This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The … opportunity to study slow development processes. The empirical inequality-development studies have started to call into question … spline methods. The association between top 1% share and development is found to experience a reversal at later stages of …