This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the … period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link … between globalization and income inequality differs across different groups of countries. There is a robust positive …

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. …

Global GDP is more than 100 trillion dollars, yet 10% of the world's population still live in extreme poverty on less … world to each poor person would eliminate extreme poverty directly and at negligible cost. It is the least we should do …

In this paper, we investigate how de facto financial globalization has influenced the labor share in developing …

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

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 … first is that the thresholds used to classify countries by the World Bank and extensively used by aid agencies, albeit with …

whether this implies the end of the historical two-cluster world rather than merely a transition as some people move from the … the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of …