Selected Reading List on Inequality
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Featured Working Papers
Income Inequality, Fiscal Decentralization and Transfer Dependency
Innocent Bystanders? Monetary Policy and Inequality in the U.S.
Inflation and Income Inequality: Is Food Inflation Different?
Social Spending in Korea: Can it Foster Sustainable and Inclusive Growth?
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July 19, 2017
Women Are Key for Future Growth : Evidence from Canada
June 30, 2017
Finance and Development, June 2017
Inequality and Fiscal Policy
The sizeable increase in income inequality experienced in advanced economies and many parts of the world since the 1990s and the severe consequences of the global economic and financial crisis have brought distributional issues to the top of the policy agenda.
Inequality and Labor Market Institutions
This paper studies the causes of the rise in inequality and focus on the role played by labor market institutions in 20 advanced economies during 1980–2010.
Senegal: Achieving High and Inclusive Growth While Preserving Fiscal Sustainability
Senegal’s recent growth performance from the perspective of its poverty-reducing and distributional characteristics has been mixed. Poverty has fallen in the last two decades, although poverty reduction has slowed significantly in recent years.
Finance & Development: Focus on Inequality
This issue of Finance & Development, All for One: Why inequality throws us off balance, looks at income inequality around the world and how it matters.
Making Growth Inclusive in Peru
The government recently created the Ministry of Social Development and Inclusion with an ambitious agenda to accelerate poverty reduction and achieve inclusive growth.
Oil Wealth in Central Africa : Policies for Inclusive Growth
Despite its vast oil wealth, central Africa still struggles to sustain strong, inclusive economic growth or to generate sufficient employment opportunities, particularly for its fast-growing youth population.
International Monetary Fund Annual Report 2015 : Tackling Challenges Together
The report covers the work of the IMF's Executive Board and contains financial statements for the year May 1, 2014, to April 30, 2015.
Commodity Price Volatility and Inclusive Growth in Low-Income Countries
This book looks at inclusive growth policies to address inequality in commodity-exporting countries, particularly natural resource rich countries.
