This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … on average the levels of national income inequality in the developing world increased in the 1980s and 1990s, and … declined in the 2000s. There was a remarkable fall in income poverty since the early 1980s, driven by the exceptional …

turmoil. It is suspected that the drop in remittance income into developing and emerging markets will have a destabilizing … on these income flows. Using a sample of 70 countries, including 16 advanced economies and 54 developing countries, we …

. The present value of human capital is determined by all future income flows, which at the same time constitute the … individual as well as the total tax base of a nation. Therefore, the income of the productive population determines the total tax … well as the future gross income flows. The costs of public goods and the transfer expenditures have to be financed from the …