This paper studies the links between macroeconomic adjustment and poverty. The first part
summarizes some of the recent evidence on poverty in the developing world. The second …

This paper develops a model to analyse how skill premia differ over time and across
countries, and uses this model to study the impact of international trade on wage inequality …

To date the literature on subjective well-being has focused on the developed economies.
We provide empirical evidence from two emerging market countries, Peru and Russia. Our …

Our objective in this paper is to assess how middle-income groups are faring with the global
turn to the market. We suggest some simple measures of the middle--the size and income …

I review the two most popular explanations for the differential trends in wage inequality in
US/UK and Europe: that relative supply of skills increased faster in Europe, and that …

This volume is a successor of sorts to the Institute's 1986 volume Toward Renewed
Economic Growth in Latin America, which blazed the trail for the market-oriented economic …

Son tres las razones que fundamentan la necesidad de actualizar la vieja temática de la
Estratificación y Movilidad Social en América Latina. Primero; su inexplicable postergación …

We study the large observed changes in labor supply by married women in the United
States over the post-World War II period, a period that saw little change in the labor supply …

Prólogo El impacto, de las reformas económicas emprendidas por los países de América
Latina y el Caribe en las últimas dos décadas se encuentra en el centro del debate sobre …

I feel greatly privileged to follow so many distinguished predecessors in delivering this
lecture. I have chosen to discuss inequality and injustice in the world, which is daring on my …