This research program is about inequality in its different shapes and forms: in the world, in transition economies, and in how it effects political and economic variables.

• how within-national inequalities are affected by macro economic policies or trade
• how and why regional inequalities within countries expand or not
• the effect of transition from state-controlled to market economies on inequality
• the state of global (world-wide) inequality between world citizens.

Selected Presentations/Publications

• Globalization and Inequality: An Introductory Essay, January 2013
• "Global income inequality in the 21st century", Keynote speech at the Congress of the Spanish Association for Development Studies, Santander, November 2012
• "Does economic inequality set limits to EU expansion?", Conference on Sovereign Insolvency, Opatija, November 2012
• "Winners and losers of globalization", HSBC Conference, New York, November 2012
• "Global Income Inequality," IMF Training Institute, March 2010.
• "Global Income Inequality, Conference of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Cambridge, UK, April 2010.
• Video: "Global Income Inequality," Economics Training Seminar, IMF, Part I | Part II (March 12, 2010)

Datasets

• World Income Distribution (WYD) (updated Mar. 2012)
• All The Ginis (updated Oct. 2012)
• Globalization and Income Distribution
• Household Expenditure and Income Data for Transitional Economies--HEIDI datasets

Please also visit these sites: 

• Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) Datasets
  This site includes household data for other regions, as well as providing resources for LSMS documents, data sets, research, and tools for managing and using household surveys.
• Povcal Household Survey Data

Documents

The policy research working papers below are drawn from the World Bank's institutional archives. Each link opens a page with an abstract of the document and several download options. Choose the 'light-weight documents' option for easy download.

See other related documents for a selected list of journal articles and formally published work.