Inequality

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WORKING PAPERS
Alleviating Global Poverty: Labor Mobility, Direct Assistance, and Economic Growth - Working Paper 479
Lant Pritchett
March 20, 2018
Simply allowing more labor mobility holds vastly more promise for reducing poverty than anything else on the development agenda. That said, the magnitude of the gains from large growth accelerations (and losses from large decelerations) are also many-fold larger than the potential gains from directe...
Multimedia
The Anti-"Sausagefest" Episode with Alice Evans
March 08, 2018
King's College London lecturer Alice Evans on how social change happens, the consequences of male bias for developing countries, and the larger takeaways of the "#sausagefest" incident for development experts.
Blog Post
The Anti-"Sausagefest" Episode with Alice Evans – CGD Podcast
Holly Shulman
March 08, 2018
King's College London lecturer Alice Evans on how social change happens, the consequences of male bias for developing countries, and the larger takeaways of the "#sausagefest" incident for development experts.
Blog Post
Strugglers: The New Poor of the 21st Century
Nancy Birdsall
March 05, 2018
Mohamed Bouazizi is the man whose protest sparked the Arab Spring in December 2010. Bouazizi was a typical “struggler,” as in the title of my keynote speech at the Australasian Aid conference several weeks ago: “Strugglers: This Century’s New Development Challe...
Blog Post
Chart of the Week #1: Is the Elephant Graph Flattening Out?
Justin Sandefur
January 04, 2018
The World Inequality Report updates and extends the famous elephant curve, showing slower gains for much of the globe, and even more concentration of economic growth in the top 1 percent.
Blog Post
The IMF on Protecting the Poor during Fiscal “Consolidations”: Better Late Than Never
Nancy Birdsall
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Nora Lustig
October 23, 2017
Inequality and inclusive growth were high on the agenda of the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank earlier this month. We are glad about that, but the under-reported story here is that this prominence marks a dramatic shift in the IMF over the last two decades...
ESSAYS
Middle Class: Winners or Losers in a Globalized World?
Nancy Birdsall
August 02, 2017
Globalization is under attack in the West. The debate among pundits is no longer about whether globalization is to blame or not. It is about why globalization is now the bugaboo it has become. A common thread are changes, for the worse, in the economic and social standing of the Western middle class...