Inequality

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WORKING PAPER

Inequality and Fiscal Redistribution in Middle Income Countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru and South Africa - Working Paper 410
Nora Lustig
August 21, 2015
This paper examines the redistributive impact of fiscal policy for Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru and South Africa using comparable fiscal incidence analysis with data from around 2010. The largest redistributive effect is in South Africa and the smallest in Indonesia. While f...
Blog Post

Two Messages for the New World Bank Commission on Global Poverty
Nancy Birdsall
and
Charles Kenny
June 29, 2015
We are delighted to see that Nora Lustig, a CGD non-resident fellow and head of the Tulane University Commitment to Equity Institute is one of eight distinguished economists appointed to the core group of a new Global Poverty Commission announced this week by World Bank Chief Economist Kaushik ...
Blog Post

When Does One Dime = 100 Million People?
Andy Sumner
May 11, 2015
WORKING PAPER

New Estimates of Global Poverty and Inequality: How Much Difference Do Price Data Really Make? - Working Paper 403
Peter Edward
and
Andy Sumner
May 11, 2015
This paper makes new estimates of global poverty and inequality in 2012 using both ‘old’, 2005 and ‘new’, 2011 purchasing power parity (PPP) price data in order to assess systematically what difference PPP data makes to the estimates.