better place to weather such a severe crisis. The impact on poverty would be considerably lower, inequality would not change …

least three different perspectives. A macroeconomic approach that relies on cross-country data on poverty, inequality, and … approach, in particular, builds on the observation that growth, changes in poverty, and changes in inequality are simply …

dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that … mild, but exhibit a strong regional pattern. Inequality is likely to fall in regions such as Latin America, which are … characterized by high initial inequality, and rise in regions like South Asia, characterized by low initial inequality. …

Comparing changes in inequality with initial levels, using new data, the author finds that within-country inequality in … income or per capita consumption is converging toward medium levels--a Gini index around 40 percent. The finding is robust to … allow for serially independent measurement error in inequality data and for short-run dynamics around longer-term trends …

While the literature on consumption insurance is growing fast, little research has been conducted on how rural … consumption insurance is affected by democracy. In this paper the authors examine how consumption insurance of Chinese rural … 1987 to 2002, they find that consumption insurance is more complete when the households are in villages with elected …

reduce some forms of poverty and inequality but worsen others, so the net effects are unclear without empirical modeling … the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade on poverty and inequality globally and in various developing … inequality, largely by boosting net farm incomes and raising real wages for unskilled workers in developing countries, and would …