appears to be a leap from the frying pan into the fire of even greater income inequality and poverty incidence. … evidence that Federalism is a strong predictor of greater income inequality in developing economies. It is also a strong … predictor of higher poverty incidence and poverty severity on average for all countries. Federalism does not predict lower …

I consider two issues concerning how to monitor global poverty for the Millennium Development Goals, the selection of … poverty lines, and the data sources for monitoring poverty over time. I discuss the choice of a single international line …, converted using purchasing power parity exchange rates, versus the use of country-specific poverty lines. I note the …

Limited attention has been paid to how well social mobility measures debated and used to study industrial countries …, three mobility concepts illustrate how properties that appear innocuous in industrial country analysis become problematic … when downward mobility includes descents into destitution. For origin-independence measures-the most widely used in …

at each percentile of the initial personalized distribution with counterfactual mobility profiles which rule out the …, significant upward mobility among the initially poorer, a sizeable part of which cannot be explained by unobserved individual …

In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …

Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases … poverty in 4 countries using a US$1.25/day PPP poverty line, in 8 countries using a US$2.50/day line, and in 15 countries …

In the Global South economic mobility across generations or intergenerational economic mobility is in and of itself an …

distribution data from the World Bank, UNU-WIDER and Eurostat; (ii) discusses the negative implications of rising income inequality … general reference source, Annex 2 provides a summary of the most up-to-date income distribution and inequality data for 141 …