transactions take place. The authors find that globalization via the diversification channel expanded throughout the world during …

This paper explores the conditions under which public spending could minimize violent conflict related to oil wealth … it undermines the state's bureaucratic penetration. Yet, little has been said on how oil wealth could be used to prevent …

transferring large shares of oil wealth can prevent conflict, while transferring small shares can trigger it. Among the different …

Gallup World Poll, the paper presents a range of estimates of the wealth-equivalent values of social trust. Such values are … variability of social capital as wealth. The analysis is used to argue, given what has been learned from the literature on social … usually not included in national or global accounts of income and wealth. In the light of the estimated importance of social …

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 …