and poverty. We find that wealth inequality reduces economic growth, but when we control for the fact that some …, while politically unconnected wealth inequality, income inequality, and initial poverty have no significant effect …A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in …

This paper depicts and analyzes the wealth distribution and wealth mobility in a national sample of nearly 1 … measure, and a regression model of wealth accumulation are estimated from these data. The findings shed light on theories of … the wealth distribution, life-cycle behavior, regional economic performance, and the empirical basis for critiques of …

Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty … measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …

at which households come out of poverty affects their asset purchase decisions. We provide empirical support for these …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty …

The Jobs of the World Project is a public resource designed to enable research on jobs and poverty across and within … vary within countries by wealth and gender and across countries by stages of development. We discuss evidence that shows … how disparities at the micro level lead to a misuse of human potential that links individual poverty to national income …