Inequality

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WORKING PAPERS
Learning Equity Requires More than Equality: Learning Goals and Achievement Gaps between the Rich and the Poor in Five Developing Countries - Working Paper 504
Maryam Akmal
and
Lant Pritchett
February 27, 2019
Achieving some absolute standard of learning for all children is a key element of global equity in education. Using the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) data from India and Pakistan, and Uwezo data from Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda that test all children of given ages, whether in sc...
Blog Post
Want to Build a Better Society? Make Rich Schools Accept Poor Kids
Susannah Hares
September 20, 2018
Education policymakers care about more than just test scores. They probably care a lot about making policies that will help them get re-elected. They might care about particular people or places that have been historically disadvantaged. And perhaps they care about building a more integrated society...
Blog Post
12 Things We Can Agree On about Global Poverty
Jason Hickel
and
Charles Kenny
August 27, 2018
There's a lot of heat on the topic of global poverty, but fundamentally a lot of agreement, too. Here is our attempt at a brief consensus position. 
Blog Post
Rethinking the Infrastructure Gap in the Poorest Countries
W. Gyude Moore
May 16, 2018
A recent blog post by Ricardo Hausmann caught my eye because it addresses issues that I’ll be focusing on during my visiting fellowship here at the Center for Global Development. Hausmann—a former Venezuelan minister of planning—discusses the difficulty of closing the infrastructure gap in...
Blog Post
On the Equity-Friendly Property Tax: Time for Developing Countries to Invest?
Nancy Birdsall
and
Sanjeev Gupta
April 25, 2018
A large proportion of revenue gains over the last two decades has come from countries’ efforts to improve the design and compliance of consumption and other indirect taxes, particularly the VAT (value-added tax); in doing so, the objective has been to  minimize VAT’s regressive effe...
Blog Post
Will the UK Labour Party’s Big Idea of an Inequality Target Help or Hinder Development?
Maya Forstater
April 24, 2018
Blog Post
On Labor Mobility, Economic Growth, and Targeted Programs
Lant Pritchett
March 26, 2018
For at least a couple of decades NGOs and others in developing countries have been designing, evaluating, tinkering, and trying to improve projects and programs that deliver specific in-kind “interventions” to targeted individuals/households in ways that raised their incomes in a sustain...