countries, with emphasis on the role of income inequality. The focus is on the period since the early/mid-1990s when growth in … story. While in the majority of countries growth was the major factor behind falling or increasing poverty, inequality …, high initial levels of inequality limit the effectiveness of growth in reducing poverty while growing inequality reduces …

This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The … opportunity to study slow development processes. The empirical inequality-development studies have started to call into question … spline methods. The association between top 1% share and development is found to experience a reversal at later stages of …

development. In the past half-century, these countries raised agricultural productivity faster than population growth and … displayed sufficient state capability to direct change towards a respectable level of industrial development. In this period …: agriculture, industry, foreign trade and investment, and social development. By using a more socially grounded analytical approach …

, market development, labour absorption, and the Kuznets inverted-U path of inequality. The second is the economic transition …In this paper we describe the major trends in China's income inequality over the past 40 years and explain them as the … outcome of four interleaved stories. The first story is a standard development story characterized by structural change …

moment in the region. It begins by offering an overview of regional urban development trends, before exploring how the … development agendas, and concludes with a call for a renewed vision of Latin American urban life. …

Most rich countries developed without aid, and this 'self-development' has some intrinsic advantages. In today …'s massively unequal world, however, such an approach would imply very low levels of human development for several generations for …

evolving, and that it depends on the stage of development of a particular country. …