This study considers how education and globalization affect income inequality in Asia, with unbalanced panel data. The … levels of globalization are correlated with higher levels of income inequality, while freedom, either political or economic …

countries over the period 1970 to 2014. We use top income shares of the World Wealth and Income Database (WID). Globalization is …This paper investigates how government ideology and globalization are associated with top income shares in 17 OECD … measured by the KOF index of globalization. Static and dynamic panel model results show that the top income shares increased …

unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark … consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

parallel developments in the World Bank's measurement of global poverty that were stimulated by the report of the Commission on …

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … first is that the thresholds used to classify countries by the World Bank and extensively used by aid agencies, albeit with …

whether this implies the end of the historical two-cluster world rather than merely a transition as some people move from the … the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of …