dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that …

assumptions, there will be a reduction in global income inequality by 2030. This potential reduction can be fully accounted for by … suggest that the mid-1990s could be seen as a turning point after which global inequality began showing a negative tendency …

"Measured by the Gini coefficient, income inequality in Brazil rose from 0.57 in 1981 to 0.63 in 1989, before falling … back to 0.56 in 2004. This latest figure would lower Brazil's world inequality rank from 2nd (in 1989) to 10th (in 2004 … the determinants of Brazil's distributional reversal over this period. The rise in inequality in the 1980s appears to have …

policies. Additionally, growth and redistribution decomposition show that, at least in the short to medium run, redistribution …

the cross-country literature on income inequality and growth may have been barking up the wrong tree, and that alternative …