income inequality during the transition process. The most obvious success story in the process of transition to date has been … only modest increases in inequality. Hence, a detailed analysis of the Polish experience, with a view toward asking what …

associated with the process of transition has led to substantial increases in inequality, thereby complicating the process of … income inequality in Poland during the transition was actually quite modest. Our analysis indicates that social transfers … played an important role in attenuating the rise in overall income inequality and, by extension, in maintaining the social …

years if underlying global trends relating to growth, trade, inequality and environmental pressures prevail. For example … transform into rising income inequality, the ability of governments to cushion this impact may be limited, as rising trade …

trends in world income inequality, it examines first the ‘growth’ conduit through which globalization affects poverty …. Treating inequality as the explicit filter between growth and poverty reduction, the causal chain of openness-growth-inequality …

We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household … inequality is negatively related to subsequent household income growth. We are able to address a number of econometric issues … suggest that village inequality has an external adverse impact on household-level income trajectories. However, once we …

conditioning on a variety of country-level factors that may matter for growth and inequality changes. This evidence confirms the …

social indicators, such as GDP growth, labour market outcomes, and poverty and inequality, for the period since the fall of … productivity. Total FDI has had only limited effects on inequality and poverty, but FDI from Germany and Austria has been found to … reduce both inequality and poverty, likely because they have benefitted mainly lower-income persons. There are differences in …