Global Inequality

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Future Development

Double tipping points in 2019: When the world became mostly rich and largely old

Homi Kharas and Wolfgang Fengler

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

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Future Development

The geography of poverty hotspots

Jennifer L. Cohen, Raj M. Desai, and Homi Kharas

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

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Future Development

5 steps to reshape economic geography and rejuvenate the Middle East and North Africa

Somik V. Lall and Ayah Mahgoub

Friday, September 20, 2019

A man carries buckets of water at a vegetable field, near a new residential compound, in Hefei, Anhui province, November 13, 2013. The Chinese Communist Party said it would work to deepen fiscal and tax reform, establish a unified land market in cities and the countryside, give farmers more property rights, and develop a sustainable social security system - all seen as necessary for putting the world's second-largest economy on a more stable footing. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: AGRICULTURE SOCIETY POLITICS) - GM1E9BD1HLE01

Future Development

Is inequality really on the rise?

Ana Revenga and Meagan Dooley

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Reports

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Report

Inequality beyond neoliberalism: Policies for more inclusive growth

Ana Revenga and Meagan Dooley

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

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Social Issues

Progress paradoxes and sustainable growth

Carol Graham

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

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Report

What’s happening to the world income distribution? The elephant chart revisited

Homi Kharas and Brina Seidel

Monday, April 2, 2018

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Report

Change of pace: Accelerations and advances during the Millennium Development Goal era

John McArthur and Krista Rasmussen

Thursday, February 22, 2018

Report

Broadening the benefits of growth

Landry Signé

Thursday, January 11, 2018

Blog Posts

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Future Development

Global poverty reduction has slowed down—again

Homi Kharas, Kristofer Hamel, Martin Hofer, and Baldwin Tong

Thursday, May 23, 2019

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Future Development

Are we reducing hunger in the world?

Homi Kharas and Lorenz Noe

Friday, April 5, 2019

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Future Development

Poverty in Africa is now falling—but not fast enough

Kristofer Hamel, Baldwin Tong, and Martin Hofer

Thursday, March 28, 2019

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Events

2018

May

Past Event

Economic mobility across generations around the world

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

The World Bank Group’s Mission to End Extreme Poverty: A conversation with President Jim Yong Kim

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

Overcoming barriers: Sustainable development, productive cities, and structural transformation in Africa

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

Washington, DC

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Declining Inequality in Latin America

Edited by Luis Felipe López-Calva and Nora Lustig

2010

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Experts

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Up Front

Are the kids alright? Saving and wealth accumulation among the millennial generation

William G. Gale

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

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Up Front

College sports joins the marketplace, with limits

Robert E. Litan

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Ana Revenga

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

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Multimedia

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Podcast Episode

The global middle class

Homi Kharas and Fred Dews

Friday, May 19, 2017

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Africa in focus

Le tonnerre n’est pas toujours suivi de la pluie : Maintenir le progrès vers la réalisation de la vision pour l’Afrique

Amadou Sy, Christina Golubski, and Amy Copley

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Africa in focus

Thunder is not yet rain: Sustaining progress towards realizing Africa’s vision

Amadou Sy, Christina Golubski, and Amy Copley

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

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