Prospects for Global Inequality and Global Middle Class 

1. Bussolo, M., De Hoyos, R., and Medvedev, D. (2008). “Is the Developing World Catching Up? Global Convergence and National Rising Dispersion” Policy Research Working Paper Series 4733, The World Bank.

Presentation prepared for the World Bank’s 2008 Economist Forum, April 17, Washington, D.C.

2. Bussolo, M, De Hoyos, R., Medvedev, D. and van der Mensbrugghe, D. (2007). “Global growth and distribution: are China and India reshaping the world?,” Policy Research Working Paper Series 4392, The World Bank.

Presentation prepared for the WIDER project meeting on “Southern Engines of Growth”, 12-13 January 2007, Beijing, China.

Agricultural Distortions

3. Bussolo, M., De Hoyos, R., and Medvedev, D. (forthcoming) “Global Income Distribution and Poverty in the Absence of Agricultural Distortions” in K. Anderson, J. Cockburn, and W. A. Martin, ed. “Agricultural Price Distortions, Inequality and Poverty” Palgrave and The World Bank.

Presentation prepared for the 11th annual GTAP conference 12-14 June 2008, Helsinki, Finland.

Climate Change

4. Bussolo, M, De Hoyos, R., Medvedev, D. and van der Mensbrugghe, D. (2008). “Global climate change and its distributional impacts” paper presented at the 11th annual GTAP conference 12-14 June 2008, Helsinki, Finland.

Presentation prepared for the 11th annual GTAP conference 12-14 June 2008, Helsinki, Finland.

Food Prices and Poverty

5. Dessus, S., S. Herrera, and R. de Hoyos. (forthcoming) “The Impact of Food Inflation on Urban Poverty and Its Monetary Cost: Some Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations.” Agricultural Economics.

Presentation of this and other findings on the poverty effects of higher food prices prepared for a conference on "Food and Fuel Price Increase: Implications for Trade and Food Security Policies," held on October 2, 2008 at the World Bank in Washington, D.C.

The GIDD has also been used in the Global Economic Prospects 2007 and 2009:
• Global Economic Prospects 2007: Managing the Next Wave of Globalization.
• Global Economic Prospects 2009: Commodity Markets at the Crossroads.