Developing world: Discuss inequality

global economic inequality and poverty: an analysis of poverty alleviation and income inequality reduction policies in the developing world

a major objective of this paper is to present a theoretical and analytical framework for better understanding and measuring the consequences of increasing poverty and inequality in income distribution at different levels in the developing countries. the research hypothesis to be tested here is that globalization has led to increasing economic inequality within countries and between them, and ha...

The Inequality Puzzle European and US Leaders Discuss Rising Income Inequality Can Inequality Be Reduced by Building Better Markets?

Decomposing World Education Inequality

We decompose global inequality in educational achievement into withinand betweencountry components. We find that the former is significantly larger. This is different than results for international income inequality, but similar to results for international health inequality.

Decomposing world health inequality.

This study explores global inequality in health status and decomposes it into within- and between-country inequality. We rely on standardized height as our health indicator since it avoids the measurement pitfalls of more traditional measures of health such as morbidity, mortality, and life expectancy. It also avoids measurement problems associated with using monetary variables such as income o...

Relative mortality improvements as a marker of socio-economic inequality across the developing world, 1990-2009

Using cross country regressions, this paper constructs a novel distance-to-frontier metric for tracking broad socio-economic inequality (including access of the poor to health infrastructure) over time for individual countries. Given the unavailability of reliable and consistent direct measures of inequality for most poor countries, especially related to nonincome aspects of living standards, t...