Goals. Yet existing research on income inequality in developing economies has not devoted much attention to the regional … dimension. This is important, as progress in reducing income inequality at national level on SDG Goal 10 is only a partial …. This paper contributes to fill this gap by offering a case study on Egypt, and adds to our knowledge of income inequality …

This discussion paper provides an updated analysis of gendered economic inequality in high- and middle-income countries …. A review of the literature demonstrates that such an analysis needs to explicitly recognize that gender, poverty and … (economic) inequality are intrinsically linked. Specifically, the paper addresses two sets of questions: First, how do …

conditioning on a variety of country-level factors that may matter for growth and inequality changes. This evidence confirms the … central importance of economic growth for poverty reduction and illustrates the difficulty of identifying specific … also small relative to the variation in growth in average incomes, implying that the latter accounts for most of the …

consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

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 …

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 …

There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure … poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …

This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade and inclusive growth. It examines … claims that the rise in inequality in many countries can be attributed to the concurrent rise in trade competition …

the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

Is there a tradeoff between raising growth and reducing inequality and poverty? This paper reviews the theoretical and … empirical literature on the complex links between growth, inequality, and poverty, with causation going in both directions. The … evidence suggests that growth can be effective in reducing poverty, but its impact on inequality is ambiguous and depends on …