alleviation have largely ignored elites. By failing to embrace the crucial role elites play in the implementation of pro … towards pro-poor policy. Historical accounts of the evolution of welfare states in the UK and USA inform us that elites … prioritization of poverty reduction is driven by the extent to which elites and the poor are interdependent, such that the presence …

using entitlements over labour (ELs) as a measure of real incomes of elites leads to the opposite effect; since the non … this argument, we find that between-country inequality among global elites is indeed lower using ELs than either PPP or … market exchange rates. But elite incomes in ELs do not merely converge-elites in poorer countries leapfrog or overshoot their …

Does repression of opposition elites prevent resistance against foreign-imposed regimes? On the one hand, elimination … of elites can undermine the opposition's capacity for antiregime resistance. Yet killing opposition elites deprives the … new regime of useful human capital. Co-optation of elites becomes a tempting alternative. We examine this trade-off by …

This paper discusses the issue of taxation and redistribution in economies dominated by Elites with limited state … capacity. Within a simple aggregate framework, we discuss the political economy incentives of Elites to tax, redistribute and … increasing returns for Elites to increase state capacity. The paper also discusses how the incentives for state capacity building …

tried to identify the circumstances under which elites are willing to mobilize resources in order to promote poverty … like to reduce; and that the elite believe that there are effective remedies. What is missing for Brazilian elites is the …

nation has incorporated into an increasingly integrated global production and financial system. National elites have … experienced a new fractionation. Emergent transnationally-oriented elites grounded in globalized circuits of accumulation compete … with older nationally-oriented elites grounded in more protected and often state-guided national and regional circuits …

This paper analyses political elites, economic elites, hybrid elite households and non-elite households in rural China …