This paper assesses how pro-poor and inclusive Asia’s recent growth has been, and what factors have been driving these … outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased …, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a result, relative to other emerging and developing regions and to Asia …

question. This paper analyzes the effects of fiscal policies on income inequality in a panel of advanced and emerging market … fiscal consolidations are likely to raise inequality through various channels including their effects on unemployment …. Spending-based consolidations tend to worsen inequality more significantly, relative to tax-based consolidations. The …

and income inequality in Brazil over the period 1995-2011. The results indicate that a tighter fiscal stance at the sub …-national level is not associated with a deterioration in inequality measures. This finding contrasts with the conclusions of several … papers in the burgeoning literature on the effects of fiscal consolidation on inequality using national data for OECD …

This paper investigates the empirical characteristics of income inequality in China and a panel of BRIC+ countries over …€”an inverted Ushaped relationship between income inequality and economic development—in China and the panel of BRIC+ countries … income inequality. While government spending appears to have a worsening impact, taxation improves income distribution. Even …

Despite the rapid economic growth and poverty reduction, inequality in Asia worsened during last two decades. We focus … our analysis is that there is still room to strengthen such policies in Asia to better achieve growth with shared … on inclusive growth could be sizeable in emerging Asia, since the estimated improvement in our proxy of inclusive growth …

While decreasing inequality is generally considered desirable, and there is a growing understanding of which policies …-economic groups arises on how government should address inequality rather than whether it should do so. While poorer respondents …. Contrary to what is commonly assumed, inequality seems to breed altruism among the rich regarding the quintessential poverty …