This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption
inequality and poverty in developing countries. It includes a discussion of data sources and …

The present study employs recent World Bank data to shed light, in a global context, on the
transformation of changes in income and inequality into poverty reduction for a large number …

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There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While
that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities …

Miracle reductions in absolute poverty led China to announce, in late 2019, the strategic
change from targeting absolute poverty to targeting relative poverty. After highlighting …

Ghana has experienced steadily increasing growth of over 7% per year on average since
2005. Following the attainment of middle income country status in 2010 and discovery of …

This book owes much to other people. There are, first and foremost, my coauthors in the
fields of poverty and income distribution, with whom it has been a great pleasure to work …

En este libro se presentan los resultados de más de un decenio de trabajo realizado en la
Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) con relación a la economía …

During 2000–10, the Gini coefficient declined in 13 of 17 Latin American countries. The
decline was statistically significant and robust to changes in the time interval, inequality …

Financial development disproportionately boosts incomes of the poorest quintile and
reduces income inequality. About 40% of the long-run impact of financial development on …