This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices …

inequality creates the impression that the world is subjected to two different pandemics in terms of their impact. This paper … applies not just to the vulnerable in the rich world; the vulnerable in the rest of the world are not more immune. Yet … documents the observed inequality with a new indicator that expresses severity relative to pre-pandemic patterns. It argues that …

In the 2000s, global inequality fell for the first time since the Industrial Revolution, driven by a decline in the … distributions, while the poorer deciles in rich countries lagged behind. Although within-country inequality increased in population …-weighted terms, for the average developing country the rise in inequality slowed down in the second half of the 2000s. However, like …

Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as … inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using what are known as social tables, stretching from the Roman Empire 14 AD … 1947. It applies two new concepts in making those assessments - what the authors call the inequality possibility frontier …

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 …

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 …In response to a growing interest in comparing inequality levels and trends across countries, several cross …

relative importance of growth and inequality changes for changes in social welfare. In a large panel of industrial and … due to changes in average incomes. In contrast, the changes in inequality observed during this period are on average much …

Inequality between world citizens in mid-19th century was such that at least a half of it could be explained by income … acknowledging that migration is probably the most powerful tool for reducing global poverty and inequality …

Do people care about income inequality and does income inequality affect subjective well-being? Welfare theories can … predict either a positive or a negative impact of income inequality on subjective well-being and empirical research has found … such empirical heterogeneity. Using a very large sample of world citizens, the author tests the consistency of income …