A poverty-inequality trade off?

A Poverty-Inequality Trade-off?

The idea that developing countries face a trade-off between poverty and inequality has had considerable influence on thinking about development policy. The experience of developing countries in the 1990s does not, however, reveal any sign of a systematic trade-off between measures of absolute poverty and relative inequality. Indeed, falling inequality tends to come with falling poverty incidenc...

Trade , Poverty and Inequality

1 Trade , Poverty and Inequality *

* I would like to thank Amit Khandelwal, Pravin Krishna, Priya Ranjan and participants in the Columbia/Johns Hopkins conference on " Challenges Facing the World Trade System " for useful discussions and comments and Jae Yoon Lee for excellent research assistance. The standard disclaimer applies.

Is There a Trade-off between Unemployment and Inequality?

Over the last two decades virtually every western European nation has faced high and persistent unemployment. In frustration, many European nations have looked to the United States, with its lower unemployment rates, as a model of labor market flexibility. The U.S. model has become less attractive, however, as analysts have come to recognize the extent of rising wage inequality in the United St...

Are Inequality and Trade Liberalization Influences on Growth and Poverty?

There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the relationship between income inequality and growth, manifested in a number of important publications. In parallel with this, concern with the impact of economic reform and globalization on developing countries has led to an upsurge of interest in linkages between policy reform, growth, inequality and poverty. We use the WIDER/UNDP World Incom...