. Inequality between global citizens is estimated at 70 Gini points rather than 65 as before. The richest decile receives 57 …

This paper presents a new methodology to measure inequality that optimally combines household survey information and …

and Public Policy -- provides a critical review of the economic literature on equality and inequality of opportunity. A … principle are presented, and the tensions between them are discussed. Different approaches to the measurement of inequality of …

This paper presents a detailed picture of how sustained growth in Egypt over 2005-2008 affected different groups both … conducted by Egypt’s national statistical agency, compares the changes in the static poverty profiles (based on growth incidence … curves on a cross-section of data) with poverty dynamics (relying on panel data, growth incidence curves and transition …

-income countries such as China, India, and Brazil as new growth poles in the world, and their dynamic growth and climbing of the …-income growth poles. The lower-income countries that can formulate and implement a viable strategy to capture this new …

search for the potential engines of growth and good governance. This debate assumes, first, that there is a meaningful …

contracts, and corruption -- conspire to create a slow-growth-poor-governance equilibrium trap into which these fragile states … and enjoy a level of sustained economic growth. But addressing these issues requires resources, which are scarce because …