Comparing changes in inequality with initial levels, using new data, the author finds that within-country inequality in … income or per capita consumption is converging toward medium levels--a Gini index around 40 percent. The finding is robust to … allow for serially independent measurement error in inequality data and for short-run dynamics around longer-term trends …

series data and non-linear simulations of inequality-neutral growth for the developing world as a whole. …

. The first measure is absolute consumption poverty, as judged by what"poverty"means in the poorest countries. The second is … not come with a reduction in the household sector's share or any further increase in overall inequality beyond its level … of inequality found in 1999. …

revisits the issues using a new series of consumption-based poverty measures spanning 50 years, and including a 15-year period … reforms began, although there are signs of rising inequality. The impact of growth is higher for poverty measures that reflect …

for inequality and poverty. Drawing on analyses based on existing household survey data and aggregate data from official … balanced, and an increase in income inequality. The paper then examines why growth was uneven and why this should be of concern … inequality and uneven growth that are good or bad in terms of what they imply for both equity and long-term growth and …

100 developing countries reveals an adverse effect on consumption growth of high initial poverty incidence at a given … channel linking current poverty to subsequent growth and poverty reduction. However, high current inequality is only a … handicap if it entails a high incidence of poverty relative to mean consumption. …

) countries with annual consumption per capita under $2,000 (at 2005 purchasing power parity) the required tax burdens are found … quite low (1 percent on average) among all countries with consumption per capita over $4,000, as well as some poorer …

turns out not to be a fact at all. Growth's effects on inequality can go either way and are contingent on several other … inequality. Possibly measurement errors confound the true relationship, but they think it more likely that the relationship … process will tend to be lower, the higher the extent of initial inequality. A smaller share of total income must imply a …

in the total incidence of consumption poverty between 1987 and 1998. But it was not enough to reduce the total number of …