Based on stylized evidence showing variation of the Gini coefficient of income inequality across skill cohorts and on … the rapid rise in trade in technology-intensive goods, the ripple effects of technology transmission and income inequality … income inequality to decline. The conjoined parameters retard growth's inequality-enhancing effect and thus facilitate long …

characteristics, and discusses policies that might help makegrowth more inclusive. The main findings are that poverty has fallen in … the last two decades,but poverty reduction has slowed in recent years. Although available indicators sometimesgive … more attention to the regional distribution of spending would also helpreduce poverty and improve inclusiveness …

Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …

The paper presents estimates of poverty [extreme poverty PPP$1.9 and PPP$3.2] and consumption inequality in India for …-kind food subsides on poverty and inequality. Extreme poverty was as low as 0.8 percent in the pre-pandemic year 2019, and food … transfers were instrumental in ensuring that it remained at that low level in pandemic year 2020. Post-food subsidy inequality …

with an increase in poverty and, in some cases, income inequality. The provison of targeted safety nets and the protection …. These crises affect poverty and the distribution of income through a variety of channels: slowdowns in economic activity … incidence of poverty and income distribution, and discusses policy options that can be considered by governments in the …

Poverty and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) should not be ascertained only on the basis of scarce and unreliable … poverty and inequality have increased over the past 30 years are based on regional income estimates with falling medians and … multiplicity of pyramid representations, poverty and inequality time trends in SSA can thus best be described as disconcerting in …

We investigate the factors driving Bolivia's success in reducing inequality and poverty during the last 15 years. Our … the poverty and inequality reduction of the last 15 years …

poverty and inequality in India during the pandemic. We have three main findings. First, India has made significant progress … have temporarily increased poverty and inequality. Second, education and employment status seem to be the main factors … in reducing poverty in recent decades, but the economic downturn associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to …

which carbon pricing can potentially affect poverty and inequality. It finds that the channels differ in important ways …Addressing the poverty and distributional impacts of carbon pricing reforms is critical for the success of ambitious …

, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that …This paper examines the empirical relationship between inequality and growth, and analyzes the impacts of growth … challenge the belief that income inequality has a negative effect on growth and confirm the validity of the Kuznets curve …