This book focuses on the distributional consequences of the public sector and examines and documents, theoretically and empirically, the effects of government s

This paper analyzes the extent of income inequality from a global perspective, its drivers, and what to do about it. The drivers of inequality vary widely among

This paper demonstrates that high and rising corruption increases income inequality and poverty by reducing economic growth, the progressivity of the tax system

The Fund has recognized in recent years that one cannot separate issues of economic growth and stability on one hand and equality on the other. Indeed, there is

Essays exploring the relationship between economic growth and inequality and the implications for policy makers.