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Global Trends in Inequality and Poverty  

Project name/title

Global Trends in Inequality and Poverty

Year:

2002

Theme:

Poverty, Inequality and Well-being

Abstract:

The scale and causes of international income inequality and poverty continue to be much debated. Yet, the quality of the analysis and data underlying this debate still leaves much to be desired. Accordingly, this project will collate poverty data to make these easily available, in the manner of the successful UNU-WIDER World Income Inequality Database (WIID). A wide variety of policy relevant studies including cross-country analyses of the determinants of poverty and income inequality, and the role of income inequality in determining development outcomes, will be undertaken.

Director:

• Almas Heshmati
  Research fellow 
• Anthony Shorrocks
  Director

Assistant:

• Janis Vehmaan-Kreula
  Project Assistant

Publications:

• Do Structural Reforms always Succeed? Lessons from Brazil
• Global Inequality: Recent Evidence and Trends
• Growth and Equity in Finland
• Growth, Inequality and Poverty: Prospects for Pro-Poor Economic Development (hardback)
• Measurement of a Multidimentional Index of Globalization and its Impact on Income Inequality
• Perspectives on Growth and Poverty
• The Rise or Fall of World Inequality: A Spurious Controversy?