The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the …

Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring …

Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring …

Reducing poverty and inequality and promoting inclusive growth are fundamental to achieving the United Nations … evaluation of the main stylized facts concerning poverty, inequality, and growth. It will uncover existing trends, put …

the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of …What has happened to inequality between and within countries since 1990? In this paper we explore who have been the … winners and losers from global growth since 1990. We find that falls in total global inequality in the last 30 years are …

consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. … world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates in PPP units of monthly real consumption and income for every …

consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. … unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark …

poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …

This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a … reducing inequality and poverty. Our results may also be beneficial to policy makers as they consider a variety of regulatory … associated with various measures of income inequality. This negative association is robust to alternative firm-level capital …

Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all … effects on inequality and poverty that the elimination of current RMI and the introduction of the new IMV would generate …The "Minimum Vital Income" (IMV) constitutes a novelty in the panorama for fighting poverty by guaranteeing minimum …