inequality in Asia. Focusing on data for four countries—the Peoples’ Republic of China, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines …—the paper asks three questions. First, how much of the past increase in inequality can be attributed to urbanization per se … urban–rural income gap, inequality within the urban sector, and inequality within the rural sector? Second, how might …

One often heard counter to the concern on rising income and wealth inequality is that it is wrong to focus on … inequality of outcomes in a “snapshot.” Intergenerational mobility and “equality of opportunity”, so the argument goes, is what … lower inequality not between individuals but between the dynasties to which they belong? And how does this pattern in turn …

households and individuals in post-apartheid South Africa. Second, while the outcomes on unemployment, poverty and inequality are … themselves negatively affected by increasing inequality, poverty and unemployment. …

growth experience; (ii) rising inequality as a threat to growth, and (iii) the case for continued development assistance to …

This commentary poses a series of progressively harder questions in the economic analysis of growth, inequality and … poverty. Starting with relatively straightforward analysis of the relationship between growth and inequality, the first …

differential access constitutes a source of inequality among poor individuals belonging to different communities. We show that this …