Despite the rapid economic growth and poverty reduction, inequality in Asia worsened during last two decades. We focus …

question. This paper analyzes the effects of fiscal policies on income inequality in a panel of advanced and emerging market … fiscal consolidations are likely to raise inequality through various channels including their effects on unemployment …. Spending-based consolidations tend to worsen inequality more significantly, relative to tax-based consolidations. The …

combination, on GDP and inequality. We focus on three dimensions of financial inclusion: access (determined by the size of … inclusion, GDP, inequality, and the distribution of gains and losses. …

, and study the effects on growth and inequality of efforts to remove these frictions. The study finds that lowering … contraints on collateral promises higher growth while inequality is better tackled through measures that lower the financial …

poverty of nations. Additionally, we find support for policies aimed at reducing capital barriers as a means to reduce child …

This paper presents a general framework for characterizing the optimal pattern of subsidies for poverty alleviation …

poverty and inequality. We find that the epidemic lowers average income and increases poverty, and that the jump in poverty is … larger than expected from the fall in average income. This disproportionate increase in poverty reflects the large share of … the population living on the threshold of poverty and the higher HIV prevalence rates in those segments of the population. …

This study confirms a strong and robust relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction in sub … institutional freedom, and island economies are important control variables that help explain the variability of poverty across …

serve both the redistributive and growth-enhancing objectives of poverty reduction policies. The current state of housing …

The coexistence of urban and rural poverty and migration to cities is studied in a dual economy model where the … and the distribution of wealth matter for the migration decision, and costs of backmigration may produce an urban poverty …