This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency, variable definitions and measurement, changing population and …

The causal relationships between country-level economic development and inequality remain a matter of considerable … theories by distinguishing between 11 clusters of countries according to the Inequality-Growth causal nexus they display over … institutionalised by stronger (or weaker) (re)distribution systems and/or by inequality enabling (or restraining) growth potential. The …

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency, variable definitions and measurement, changing population and …

inequality: Thus there is a new approach for explaining Piketty's historical findings of a medium term rise of the capital income …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … "inequality convergence" with previously more equal countries becoming less equal over time and the obverse. We provide support …

Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be … Surveys, to revisit the question of whether inequality is associated with economic growth and, in particular, to examine … whether inequality of opportunity - driven by circumstances at birth - has a negative effect on subsequent growth. Results are …

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 …