Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries …-ante measures of inequality of economic opportunity (IEO) across 41 countries, and of the Human Opportunity Index (HOI) for 39 … countries. It also examines international correlations between these indices and output per capita, income inequality, and …

(from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty and inequality in Ghana. To control … internal and international remittances reduce the level, depth, and severity of poverty in Ghana. However, the size of the … poverty reduction depends on the type of remittances received. In general, poverty in Ghana is reduced more by international …

not only increasing incomes and reducing poverty, but appears as well to be breaking down long-standing barriers to … diversification could thus yield significant returns in terms of declining poverty and increased income mobility. The evidence from … Palanpur also shows, however, that at the village-level a significant increase in income inequality has accompanied …

, this paper reviews the evidence on levels and recent trends in global poverty and income inequality. It documents the … negative correlations between both poverty and inequality indices, on the one hand, and mean income per capita on the other. It … points to the dominant role of Asia in accounting for the bulk of the world's poverty reduction since 1981. The evolution of …

of per capita income has important implications for the relative roles of income growth and inequality changes in poverty … reduction. When poverty reduction is the overriding policy objective, poorer and relatively equal countries may be willing to … tolerate modest increases in income inequality in exchange for faster growth-more so than richer and highly unequal countries. …

The authors illustrate some of the potential consequences of the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of multilateral … trade negotiations on incomes and poverty globally. Using the global LINKAGE model to generate changes in domestic and … poverty line that would accompany various reform scenarios. When accompanied by additional information about the elasticity of …

cross-country sample, the authors find that the answer is yes: Financial intermediary development reduces income inequality … by disproportionately boosting the income of the poor and therefore reduces poverty. This result is robust to controlling …

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 …One of the most contentious issues of globalization is the effect of global economic integration on inequality and …

uses a database assembled by the World Bank Group to investigate some basic characteristics of shared prosperity …, particularly its relationship with overall economic growth and inequality. Initial estimates using this dataset of 79 countries … inequality, the paper discusses two main ideas. First, shared prosperity is strongly correlated with overall prosperity implying …

global warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While … studies consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … vulnerability especially in poorer Sub-Saharan Africa, there is inconclusive evidence on climate change impacts on inequality …