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Global Inequality : From Class to Location, from Proletarians to Migrants
Milanovic, Branko - 2017
Inequality between world citizens in mid-19th century was such that at least a half of it could be explained by income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975731
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Societal Poverty : A Relative and Relevant Measure
Jolliffe, Dean - 2020
Poverty lines are typically higher in richer countries, and lower in poorer ones, reflecting the relative nature of national assessments of who is considered poor. In many high-income countries, poverty lines are explicitly relative, set as a share of mean or median income. Despite systematic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012854178
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An Evaluative Look Behind the Curtain : World Bank Group Staff's Early Experience with the Shared Prosperity Goal
Smets, Lodewijk - 2018
In 2013, the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank Group endorsed two ambitious goals: eliminating extreme … poverty in the world by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity. The latter is defined as fostering the growth in the income of … the poorest 40 percent of the population in each country. In 2016–17, the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012931053
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Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases : An Introduction
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2017
the Caribbean. Two are based on secondary sources: All the Ginis and the World Income Inequality Database; and one is … generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database. Although there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970655
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The Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty in 2030 and the Potential from Rapid, Inclusive, and Climate-Informed Development
Rozenberg, Julie - 2017
The impacts of climate change on poverty depend on the magnitude of climate change, but also on demographic and socioeconomic trends. An analysis of hundreds of baseline scenarios for future economic development in the absence of climate change in 92 countries shows that the drivers of poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970671
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Preferences, Purchasing Power Parity, and Inequality : Analytical Framework, Propositions, and Empirical Evidence
Majumder, Amita - 2017
This paper makes analytical, methodological and empirical contributions to the literature on purchasing power parity. Purchasing power parities are required in a host of cross-country welfare comparisons, such as poverty rates and gross domestic product. The subject has recently generated much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971183
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Party Age and Party Color : New Results on the Political Economy of Redistribution and Inequality
Keefer, Philip - 2017
This paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a central -- but still contested -- assumption of the political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972412
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Infrastructure, Growth, and Inequality : An Overview
Calderón, César - 2017
Academics and policy makers have long considered an adequate supply of infrastructure services to be essential for economic development. This paper reviews recent theoretical and empirical literature on the effects of infrastructure development on growth and income distribution. The theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972738
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Growth, Inequality, and Social Welfare : Cross-Country Evidence
Dollar, David - 2017
Social welfare functions that assign weights to individuals based on their income levels can be used to document the relative importance of growth and inequality changes for changes in social welfare. In a large panel of industrial and developing countries over the past 40 years, most of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973293
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The Measurement of Educational Inequality : Achievement and Opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2017
This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975647