distribution data from the World Bank, UNU-WIDER and Eurostat; (ii) discusses the negative implications of rising income inequality …

Around the world, people are becoming more and more worried about how globalization will affect their standard of … living. According to the literature, globalization has resulted in the marginalization of the impoverished populations in … investigate the impact of globalization on income inequality. The study used two-stage least squares (2SLS) to study the influence …

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 …

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 …

To analyse the globalization-inequality relationship, we extend the North-South HOS model by assuming (i) that the size … three phases of globalization, corresponding to different production patterns and to specific changes in inequality in the … decreases during the first phase of globalization, and inequality diverges across countries. In the South, very different …