series data and non-linear simulations of inequality-neutral growth for the developing world as a whole. …

revisits the issues using a new series of consumption-based poverty measures spanning 50 years, and including a 15-year period … reforms began, although there are signs of rising inequality. The impact of growth is higher for poverty measures that reflect …

100 developing countries reveals an adverse effect on consumption growth of high initial poverty incidence at a given … channel linking current poverty to subsequent growth and poverty reduction. However, high current inequality is only a … handicap if it entails a high incidence of poverty relative to mean consumption. …

) countries with annual consumption per capita under $2,000 (at 2005 purchasing power parity) the required tax burdens are found … quite low (1 percent on average) among all countries with consumption per capita over $4,000, as well as some poorer …

Income inequality in China has risen rapidly in the past decades across regions, between rural and urban sectors, and … most important factors explaining overall inequality are differential returns to schooling and sector of employment. A … carried out during the last 25 years. The authors argue that rising income inequality can be part of a normal process of …

percent in 2004. At the same time, however, different kinds of disparities have increased. Income inequality has risen … working class. There have also been increases in inequality of health and education outcomes. Some rise in inequality was … inevitable as China introduced a market system, but inequality may have been exacerbated rather than mitigated by a number of …

Measured by the Gini coefficient, income inequality in Brazil rose from 0.57 in 1981 to 0.63 in 1989, before falling … back to 0.56 in 2004. This latest figure would lower Brazil's world inequality rank from 2nd (in 1989) to 10th (in 2004 … the determinants of Brazil's distributional reversal over this period. The rise in inequality in the 1980s appears to have …

for inequality and poverty. Drawing on analyses based on existing household survey data and aggregate data from official … balanced, and an increase in income inequality. The paper then examines why growth was uneven and why this should be of concern … inequality and uneven growth that are good or bad in terms of what they imply for both equity and long-term growth and …