uses a database assembled by the World Bank Group to investigate some basic characteristics of shared prosperity …

Global income inequality captures income differences among all individuals around the world. Global inequality around … the world increased from 1820 to 1990 as incomes in richer countries grew faster than incomes in relatively poorer … world decreased as populous and relatively poorer countries, in particular China, reduced the income gap with richer parts …

Recent empirical studies question conventional wisdom about the importance of education to growth. These results partly … reflect how international differences in the quality of education systems--defined by the systems' ability to produce one … data in which the elasticity of human capital depends stochastically on different characteristics of the education system …

In developing countries, younger and better-educated cohorts are entering the workforce. This developing world …-led education wave is altering the skill composition of the global labor supply, and impacting income distribution, at the national … and global levels. This paper analyzes how this education wave reshapes global inequality over the long run using a …

estimate the growth effects of expenditure and education inequality while controlling for other factors, such as initial levels … capita expenditure growth in rural Uganda is affected positively by the level of education as well as by the degree of … education inequality. Expenditure inequality does not have a significant impact on growth. …

China has been the most rapidly growing economy in the world over the past 25 years. This growth has fueled a … working class. There have also been increases in inequality of health and education outcomes. Some rise in inequality was … system that has relied on local government to fund basic health and education. The result has been that poor villages could …