and poverty. We find that wealth inequality reduces economic growth, but when we control for the fact that some …, while politically unconnected wealth inequality, income inequality, and initial poverty have no significant effect. …

the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of … just 12 per cent, this would have been sufficient to end $2 poverty today. Persistence of global poverty, it seems, is not …