development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …

Bolivia made substantial progress in reducing poverty and inequality during the commodity boom, and despite the adverse … external context of the past five years, poverty reduction continued, albeit more slowly. Expansionary policies allowed the … country to continue growing and reducing poverty until the pandemic but did so at the expense of large macroeconomic …