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 … threshold in per capita income but it does matter to traditional OECD donors because not only are those thresholds used in …

We assess the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (poverty and inequality) in 93 developing … Middle East and North Africa) and income levels (upper middle income, lower middle income and low income). Our results show … findings are established. First, the increased use of mobile phones to pay bills is negatively correlated with: (i) poverty in …

In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication 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 … the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of …

America, while in Africa the experience is very heterogeneous. While gender inequality has decreased slightly, large … inequalities in educational attendance across the income distribution. Interestingly, inequalities in attendance declines with … rising average attendance, while inequality in completion rates or schooling years increases with rising completion rates or …

consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID …)) containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the …