The COVID-19 pandemic risks exacerbating inequality in Asia. High frequency labor surveys show that the pandemic is … to increase inequalities. As a result, income inequality, which was already high and rising in Asia before the pandemic …

inequality (Furceri, Loungani, Ostry and Pizzuto, 2020). In this paper, we show that the extent of fiscal consolidation in the … inequality. Episodes marked by extreme austerity-measured using either the government's fiscal balance, health expenditures or … redistribution-have been associated with an increase in the Gini measure of inequality three times as large as in episodes where …

Inequality is increasingly a concern. Fiscal and structural policies are well-understood mitigators. However, less is … known about the potential role of monetary policy. This paper investigates how inequality matters for monetary policy within … a tractable Two-Agent New Keynesian model that captures important dimensions of inequality. We find some support for …