countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 … to 2030 under different assumptions about growth and inequality. This allows for quantifying the interdependence of the … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …

Previous Poverty and Shared Prosperity reports have conveyed the difficult message that the world is not on track to …

This paper revisits four recent cross-country empirical studies on the effects of inequality on growth. All four … these inequality-and-growth regressions are weak, and that weak instrument-consistent confidence sets for the effect of … inequality on growth include a wide range of positive and negative values. This suggests that strong conclusions about the effect …

This analysis examines the relationship between nonrenewable resource dependence, economic growth and income inequality … nonrenewable natural resource dependence is associated with lower income inequality, while there is no statistically significant … with both higher levels of income inequality and lower per capita GDP. Further analysis focusing on a subsample of non …

into a market-oriented economy. This paper offers a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia … findings show rising income levels and decreasing inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather …, leading to less long-term inequality than short-term inequality. The analysis also finds that switching from a part-time job …

This paper studies future poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity outcomes using a panel data set with 150 countries … below 3 percent by 2030. Global and country aggregations show a decrease in income inequality by 2030; though, significant … downside risks could increase wealth inequality in high- and low-output growth economies by 2030. Substantial uncertainty, as …