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The increasing proportion of non-agricultural work in rural India has commonly been associated with widening income inequality...
Income inequality non-farm employment PovertyResearch Brief
Much discussion of climate change in the developing world focuses on if, when, and to what extent developing countries should be subject to any global attempts to curb greenhouse gas emissions...
Climate change Climate uncertainty Global mitigationResearch Brief
China has experienced fast economic growth over the last forty years. The number of Chinese billionaires has grown exceptionally fast and their wealth has increased enormously...
Top incomes Income inequality TaxationBlog
Measuring inequality in middle-income countriesIncome inequality is the result of complex processes with multiple interacting driving forces but understanding those drivers in emerging economies is particularly difficult because of data and analytical challenges...
Global inequality Economic inequality Top incomesBlog
Inequality: Driving forces and policy solutionsThe many faces of inequality Measuring inequality isn’t as simple as it may seem. We know that since the 1970s global inequality has been falling in relative terms, but absolute inequality has been increasing over the same period...
Global inequality WIID Income inequalityBlog
Narendra Modi’s performance on the Indian economy: Five key policies assessed
When Narendra Modi became India’s prime minister in spring 2014 the Indian economy was in the doldrums...
demonitisation Political economy ElectionsBlog
India’s General Elections 2019: The potential electoral consequences of demonetisation In the campaign leading up to the Lok Sabha elections in spring 2014, one of the more important promises that Narendra Modi made was to ‘clean up’ the economy by bringing back to India all the illicit money that was purportedly stashed aw...
demonitisation Political economy ElectionsBlog
How can developing countries deliver effective public financial planning?In many less developed countries, there is little problem identifying the need for public investment in programmes aimed at improving things such as infrastructure, health and education. The problem comes in delivering them...
SDGs SDG16 SDG17Policy Brief
Reducing inequalities in South Africa: Progress on equality thwarted by slow growth and success of top earners May 2019South Africa has the highest rate of measured inequality in the world. Often thought to be a legacy of the apartheid system, inequality in South Africa has stubbornly persisted...
Earnings personal income tax Survey dataPolicy Brief
Inequality in Brazil: Inclusive growth trend of this millennium is over May 2019After three decades of persistently high inequality, Brazil has been experiencing a downward trend since 2001, accompanied by a rise in household incomes. These trends lasted until 2014 when a major reversal took place on both fronts...
Income inequality Fiscal redistribution Household incomeResearch Brief
In an attempt to reduce poverty and vulnerability in a sustainable and cost-effective way, in 2003 the Zambian Government introduced a social cash transfer (SCT) scheme...
Economic inequality Poverty Social cash transfersBlog
What should Mozambique do with the revenue from natural gas projects? (Part III)At the beginning of this decade, large offshore natural gas fields were discovered in north-east Mozambique. Investment is now flowing into the country, and a boom in the natural gas sector is expected...
Extractives Mozambique RevenuesResearch Brief
From an international perspective, growth in average wages has been very impressive in urban China during recent decades. Average wages were about ten times as high in 2013 as in 1988. But how has wage inequality evolved during this period?...
Wages Income inequality Wage growthBlog
What should Mozambique do with the revenue from natural gas projects? (Part II)At the beginning of this decade, large offshore natural gas fields were discovered in north-east Mozambique. Investment is now flowing into the country, and a boom in the natural gas sector is expected...
Extractives Mozambique RevenuesBlog
What should Mozambique do with the revenue from natural gas projects? (Part I)At the beginning of this decade, large offshore natural gas fields were discovered in north-east Mozambique. Investment is now flowing into the country, and a boom in the natural gas sector is expected...
Extractives Mozambique RevenuesBlog
From Africa rising to rising debt in Africa: The looming debt crisis
Africa’s rising public debt continues to attract increased attention regionally and internationally. The narrative about Africa seems to have gradually shifted from ‘Africa rising’ to ‘rising debt in Africa’...
Debts debt crisis Development finance