The objective of this study is to contribute to a better understanding of the extent and nature of poverty in urban … disparities within urban areas between capital cities and secondary cities, and focusing on dimensions of poverty related to … cities, with households in secondary cities being worse off. In addition, secondary cities often had poverty indicators …

This paper assesses the state of research and examines priorities for future work in the area of urbanization and … growth. This is done by reviewing and summarizing the findings of five scoping papers covering the following topics: urban … poverty, the political economy of urban poverty, urban real estate and housing, urban infrastructure finance, and external …

evolution of finance, inequality, and economic growth. …This paper critically reviews the literature on finance and inequality, highlighting substantive gaps in the literature …. Finance plays a crucial role in most theories of persistent inequality. Unsurprisingly, therefore, economic theory provides a …

Over the past decade (2003-12), Latin America has experienced strong income growth and a notable reduction in income … inequality, with the region's Gini coefficient falling from 55.6 to 51.8. Previous studies have warned about the sustainability … of such a decline, and this paper presents evidence of stagnation in the pace of reduction of income inequality in Latin …

This paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 …

This paper assesses the link between democracy and inequality. Inequality is measured at the cohort level with pseudo …-run historical patterns in the degree of democracy relate to income inequality. However, this relationship is non …-monotonic: inequality ?rst increases with the stock of democracy before falling. The paper also presents evidence that education may be a …

This paper assesses inequality of opportunity in educational achievement using the Human Opportunity Index methodology … inequality in most of the countries in the sample. Consistent with what has been documented previously in the literature, the … paper also finds a strong and stable correlation between inequality of opportunity and public spending on school education …

growth. The paper departs from the literature by using a broad measure of gender inequality that goes well beyond gender … in the growth-gender inequality relationship. The results confirm that greater gender inequality is strongly associated … with lower economic growth. However, this negative relationship between gender inequality and growth is entirely due to the …

into achievements in reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity. Although factors associated with upward mobility vary … significantly by country, education and jobs undoubtedly play an important role in lifting households out of poverty and helping … their lives. This disconnect is partly explained by increased inequality in the region, an increasing sense of unfairness in …