Global Inequality

Technology, inequality, and democracy

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La Paz, Bolivia.- Authorities distribute food in La Paz, Bolivia on November 3, 2020. The United Nations (UN) warned this Tuesday (3) that the COVID-19 crisis in Bolivia threatens the sustainability of the achievements of the last decade, exposing the middle class to slipping back into poverty.

Eliciting welfare information from both the tails and the middle of income distributions

Kimberly Blair Bolch and Luis F. Lopez-Calva

Friday, November 19, 2021

17 Rooms podcast

Introducing 17 Rooms, a podcast about the people driving a new approach for the Sustainable Development Goals

Zia Khan and John McArthur

Monday, November 15, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla Motor, speaks at the South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, March 9, 2013. REUTERS/Gerry Shih/File Photo

Elon Musk, billionaires, and the United Nations: The 1% solution to global development

Friday, November 5, 2021

A women sitting on her couch is working from home due to the confinement due to the corona virus pandemy. Paris, France. April 10 2020.Une femme assise sur son canape fait du teletravail en raison du confinement pendant la pandemie de coronavirus. Paris, France. 10 avril 2020.NO USE FRANCE

Worsening global digital divide as the US and China continue zero-sum competitions

Monday, October 11, 2021

There Is Nothing For You Here

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

By Fiona Hill

2021

People wait to receive a dose of COVAXIN coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine manufactured by Bharat Biotech, during a vaccination drive organised by SEEDS, an NGO which normally specialise in providing relief after floods and other natural disasters, at an under-construction flyover in New Delhi, India, August 31, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

The risks of an uneven economic recovery in an unequal world

Ambar Narayan, Alexandru Cojocaru, Miriam Muller, and David Newhouse

Monday, September 27, 2021

A girl in India uses a computer for onlline learning

Ed tech and educational opportunity during the COVID-19 school closures

Emiliana Vegas, Sheral Shah, and Brian Fowler

Monday, August 23, 2021

Three girls in a rural town in India use a laptop for school.

How has education technology impacted student learning in India during COVID-19?

Emiliana Vegas, Sunhwa Lee, and Unika Shrestha

Monday, August 23, 2021

An Indian school girl reads her book inside her class at a government-run school in village Kurana on the outskirts of the Indian central city of Bhopal in this picture taken on August 24, 2004. Although India has some of the best engineering and medical schools in the world and also one of the largest pools of scientists, nearly 40 percent of Indians are still illiterate. Picture taken on August 24, 2004. TO ACCOMPANY FEATURE INDIA-EDUCATION REUTERS/Raj Patidar AH/CP

Mainstreaming the outcomes mindset of results-based financing

Avnish Gungadurdoss

Thursday, August 19, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Wind turbines are seen at Mynydd Portref Wind Farm near Hendreforgan in South Wales, Britain, March 26, 2021. REUTERS/Matthew Childs/File Photo

Climate policy models need to get real about people — here’s how

David G. Victor, Wei Peng, Gokul Iyer, Valentina Bosetti, Vaibhav Chaturvedi, James Edmonds, Allen A. Fawcett, Stéphane Hallegatte, Detlef van Vuuren, and John Weyant

Nature Tuesday, June 8, 2021

PA via ReutersPrime Minister Boris Johnson delivers a speech during a visit to Exeter College Construction Centre, Exeter, in which he made a pledge to ensure there was "life-long" skills retraining opportunities after the coronavirus pandemic had exposed the "shortcomings" of the UK's educational system.No Use UK. No Use Ireland. No Use Belgium. No Use France. No Use Germany. No Use Japan. No Use China. No Use Norway. No Use Sweden. No Use Denmark. No Use Holland

3 reasons why we may build back better after COVID-19

Shanta Devarajan

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Map with points and numbers overlaid

How AI-powered poverty maps can increase equity in the COVID-19 response

Laura McGorman, Guanghua Chi, and Han Fang

Friday, May 7, 2021

A woman wearing a face mask poses through a plastic sheet in front of her shop along the railway line.Bangkok city urban dwellers living along the railway line. The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) train travels from Bangkok's central station at Hua Lamphong to east of the capital and connects to Chachoengsao, 82 km from Bangkok along this line. (Photo by Paul Lakatos / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Pandemic divergence: A short note on COVID-19 and global income inequality

Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Federico Filippini

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Server room

Technology, growth, and inequality: Changing dynamics in the digital era

Friday, February 12, 2021

RIMINI, ITALY, MARCH 16, 2016: people are passing through piazza martiri

How do small regions in Europe achieve growth?

Austin Kilroy and Roberto Ganau

Thursday, January 28, 2021

A diesel pump is pictured at a gas station in Lagos, Nigeria September 10, 2019. Picture taken September 10, 2019. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

Figures of the week: Carbon taxes can fuel green economic recovery and reduce income inequality

Leo Holtz and Chris Heitzig

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Antananarivo, Madagascar, Africa -January 11 2020: An aerial view of a group of poor children in a slum of the madagascan city. Malagasy kids play with tires in the dirt, surrounded by hanging laundry

Over 1 billion people live in poverty hotspots

Raj M. Desai, Homi Kharas, and Selen Özdoğan

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Antananarivo / Madagascar - October 21, 2011: Laundry hangs on clothes lines on balconies of a run down high-rise apart.ment building

Poverty hotspots and the correlates of subnational development

Raj M. Desai, Homi Kharas, and Selen Özdoğan

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Illustration of a window looking out at the sun

Reimagining the global economy: Building back better in a post-COVID-19 world

Tuesday, November 17, 2020