framework, technology, contacts with the outside world, and changes in power and wealth matter not just directly but because …

literature which has made little or no effort to be comparative, and it matters. Compared with the rest of the world, inequality …

We discuss recent empirical research on how globalization has affected income inequality in developing countries. We … begin with a discussion of conceptual issues regarding the measurement of globalization and inequality. Next, we present … empirical evidence on the evolution of globalization and inequality in several developing countries during the 1980s and 1990s …

This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of refugees over 1987-2017 and establishes several stylized facts about … refugees today compared with past decades. Refugees still predominantly reside in developing countries neighboring their … country of origin. However, compared to past decades, refugees today (i) travel longer distances, (ii) are less likely to seek …

growing literature on wealth inequality across the world. Evidence points towards a rise in global wealth concentration: for … financial globalization makes it increasingly hard to measure wealth at the top. I discuss how new data sources (leaks from …

The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the … with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti …