economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …

What has happened to inequality between and within countries since 1990? In this paper we explore who have been the … winners and losers from global growth since 1990. We find that falls in total global inequality in the last 30 years are … the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of …

future trends of poverty prevalence and inequality across countries in a reference scenario and under a climate mitigation …), submitted under the Paris Agreement, will have on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of poverty eradication (SDG1) and … reduced income inequality (SDG10). By combining an empirical analysis with a modelling exercise, the paper estimates the …

various designs and estimating costs and possible impacts on poverty and inequality. The authors also analyse a series of …

in the U.S. has a major impact on poverty rates, reducing the percent poor in 2004 from 29 percent to 13.5 percent …, estimates which are robust to different measures of the poverty line. We find that, while there are significant behavioral side … effects of many programs, their aggregate impact is very small and does not affect the magnitude of the aggregate poverty …

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. …

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

-specific dimensions, indicators, weights and cut-offs. This paper analyses the 2013 round of the multidimensional poverty and inequality …Research into multidimensional poverty has gathered momentum in the last half decade, most notably in the aftermath of … policy instruments. Multidimensional poverty theories have been vigorously advocated by some of the most thoughtful and hard …

The UK has experienced a dramatic increase in earnings and income inequality over the past four decades. We use … detailed micro level information to construct historical measures of inequality from 1968 to 2008. We study whether monetary … monetary policy shocks lead to a deterioration in earnings and income inequality and contribute to its fluctuation. Our …

Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … is therefore to disentangle the two effects by, first, estimating region-specific inequality in permanent and transitory … indicate that it is important to separate the two effects; while an increase in the inequality in permanent income yields a …