World Bank and other international financial institutions. The specification of these models is dictated by the issues at …

rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …

developing world economy grew at more than 3.5 percent per capita in the 1990s. Trend #2: The number of poor people in the world … developing world population living on less than $1 per day was cut in half since 1981. Trend #3: Global inequality (among … citizens of the world) has declined - modestly -- reversing a 200-year-old trend toward higher inequality. Trend #4: There is …

The actual distribution of world income across countries is extremely unequal, much higher than the within country … terms of changes in standard inequality measures, it is of some importance for the lowest decile of the world's income …

-by-product sequence of reforms rather than an all-inclusive reform. …

African countries caused them to fall behind. Using the World Bank's LINKAGE global general equilibrium model and the newly …

analysis takes advantage of high-frequency phone survey data collected by the World Bank to assess the distributional impacts …