We examine inequality convergence over the past three decades and ask if environmentally related impacts on health, and … their effect on human capital, are responsible for the slow rate of inequality reduction in countries. Though higher initial … incidence of environmentally related impacts on health simultaneously worsens the rate of inequality reduction, we find that …

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 …