In the cross section of countries, there is a strong positive correlation between trade and income, and a negative …) identification strategy, and exploit countries' exogenous geographic characteristics to estimate the causal effect of trade on income … and inequality. Our cross-country estimates for trade's impact on real income are consistently positive and significant …

. Then, it elaborates on more granular tax policy, discussing key choices in the structure of the personal income tax on … labor and capital income, taxes on wealth, the corporate income tax, and consumption taxes. The paper concludes by …

The author addresses two issues. First, how can health inequalities be measured so as to take into account policymakers … information on health inequality be combined with information on the mean of the relevant distribution to obtain an overall … measure of health "achievement?" Applying the approach developed by Wagstaff shows how much worse some countries perform when …

income inequality and poverty, except financial liberalization, which tends to exacerbate them. Also, banking sector … fully support the reduction of poverty and income equality …This paper provides evidence on the link between financial development and income distribution. Several dimensions of …

inform policy by complementing the analysis of standard macro-level measures of inequality and poverty with a household …-level analysis of subjective perceptions of poverty. We find that many more people appear to feel poor than are classified as such … using purely income-based measures. Uncertainty, in particular related to expectations of future income and vulnerability to …

remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 … percent in 2004. At the same time, however, different kinds of disparities have increased. Income inequality has risen …, propelled by the rural-urban income gap and by the growing disparity between highly educated urban professionals and the urban …