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  • The Analysis of Inequality in the Bretton Woods Institutions (anglais)

    This paper assesses the evolution of thinking, analysis, and discourse about inequality in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund since their inception in 1944, on the basis of bibliometric...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10149 Date du document: 22 août 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ferreira,Francisco H. G.

  • Death and Destitution : The Global Distribution of Welfare Losses from the COVID-19 Pandemic (anglais)

    The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in well-being around the world. This paper seeks to quantify and compare two important components of those losses—increased mortality and higher...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9673 Date du document: 24 mai 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Sterck,Olivier Christian Brigitte,Mahler,Daniel Gerszon,Decerf,Benoit Marie A

  • Labor Market Experience and Falling Earnings Inequality in Brazil : 1995-2012 (anglais)

    The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The decline in other measures of earnings inequality was even larger, with the 90-10 percentile...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 186285 Date du document: 25 mars 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Sergio P. Firpo,Julián Messina

  • Lives and Livelihoods : Estimates of the Global Mortality and Poverty Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic (anglais)

    This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9277 Date du document: 1 juin 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Decerf,Benoit,Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Mahler,Daniel Gerszon,Sterck,Olivier

  • Shared prosperity : concepts, data, and some policy examples (anglais)

    "Shared prosperity" has become a common phrase in the development policy discourse. This short paper provides its most widely used operational definition -- the growth rate in the average income of the...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8451 Date du document: 22 mai 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Galasso,Emanuela,Negre,Mario

  • Ageing poorly? : accounting for the decline in earnings inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012 (anglais)

    The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The decline in earnings inequality was even larger by other measures, with the 90-10 percentile...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8018 Date du document: 30 mars 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Firpo,Sergio P.,Messina,Julian

  • Estimation and inference for actual and counterfactual growth incidence curves (anglais)

    Different episodes of economic growth display widely varying distributional characteristics, both across countries and over time. Growth is sometimes accompanied by rising and sometimes by falling inequality...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7933 Date du document: 5 janvier 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Pinherio Firpo,Sergio,Galvao,Antonio F.

  • Appraising cross-national income inequality databases : an introduction (anglais)

    In response to a growing interest in comparing inequality levels and trends across countries, several cross-national inequality databases are now available. These databases differ considerably in purpose...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7489 Date du document: 12 novembre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Lustig,Nora,Teles,Daniel Chaim

  • A global count of the extreme poor in 2012 : data issues, methodology and initial results (anglais)

    The 2014 release of a new set of purchasing power parity conversion factors (PPPs) for 2011 has prompted a revision of the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7432 Date du document: 3 octobre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Chen,Shaohua,Dabalen,Andrew L.,Dikhanov,Yuri M.,Hamadeh,Nada,Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell,Narayan,Ambar,Prydz,Espen Beer,Revenga,Ana L.,Sangraula,Prem Prasad,Serajuddin,Umar,Yoshida,Nobuo

  • Global count of the extreme poor in 2012 : data issues, methodology and initial results (anglais)

    The 2014 release of a new set of purchasing power parity conversion factors (PPPs) for 2011 has prompted a revision of the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts...

    Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125425 Date du document: 1 octobre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Chen,Shaohua,Dabalen,Andrew L.,Dikhanov,Yuri M.,Hamadeh,Nada,Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell,Narayan,Ambar,Prydz,Espen Beer,Revenga,Ana L.,Sangraula,Prem Prasad,Serajuddin,Umar,Yoshida,Nobuo

  • Equality of opportunity : theory and evidence (anglais)

    Building on earlier work by political philosophers, economists have recently sought to define a concept of equity that accommodates the fairness of reward to individual responsibility and effort, while...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7217 Date du document: 20 mars 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Peragine,Vito

  • The economic impact of Ebola on sub-Saharan Africa : updated estimates for 2015 (anglais)

    The most severe impact of the Ebola epidemic, which began in Guinea in December 2013 and quickly spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone, has been in lost human lives and suffering. This report, prepared for...

    Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 93721 Date du document: 20 janvier 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Vargas Da Cruz,Marcio Jose,Evans, David,Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Kastelic,Kristen Himelein,Maliszewska,Maryla,Over,A. Mead,Smith, Gregory,Thomas,Mark Roland

  • Inequality of opportunity and economic growth : a cross-country analysis (anglais)

    Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be associated with faster economic growth, other kinds, arising from unequal opportunities...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6915 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Lakner,Christoph,Lugo,Maria Ana,Ozler,Berk

  • The World Bank economic review 28 (2) (anglais)

    This paper is organized in following headings: economic development as opportunity equalization; the measurement of educational inequality: achievement and opportunity; economic growth and equality of...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 113049 Date du document: 1 janvier 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Roemer,John E.,Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Gignoux,Jérémie,Peragine,Vito,Palmisano,Flaviana,Brunori,Paolo,Van de gaer,Dirk,Vandenbossche,Joost,Figueroa,José Luis,Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Das Gupta,Monica,Shemyakina,Olga N.,Justino,Patricia,Leone,Marinella,Salardi,Paola,Valente,Christine,Verwimp,Philip,Van Bavel,Jan

  • The World Bank research observer 28 (2) (anglais)

    The World Bank Research Observer is intended for anyone who has a professional interest in development. Observer articles are written to be accessible to nonspecialist readers; contributors examine key...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 113055 Date du document: 1 août 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ravallion,Martin,Gersovitz,Mark,Kriger,Norma Jean,Serve´n,Luis,Nguyen,ha,Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Lugo,Maria Ana,Acharya,Arnab,Vellakkal,Sukumar,Taylor,Fiona,Masset,Edoardo,Satija,Ambika,Burke,Margaret,Ebrahim,Sha,E. Baez,Javier,Kronick,Dorothy,D. Mason,Andrew

  • Economic mobility and the rise of the Latin American middle class (espagnol)

    After decades of stagnation, the size of the middle class in Latin America and the Caribbean recently expanded by 50 percent from 103 million people in 2003 to 152 million (or 30 percent of the continent's...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 73823 Date du document: 13 mars 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Lopez-Calva,Luis-Felipe,Lugo,Maria Ana,Messina Granovsky,Julian S.,Rigolini,Iamele P.,Vakis,Renos

  • The measurement of educational inequality : achievement and opportunity (anglais)

    Two related measures of educational inequality are proposed: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 112408 Date du document: 20 février 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Gignoux,Jeremie D.

  • Multidimensional poverty analysis : looking for a middle ground (anglais)

    Widespread agreement that poverty is a multifaceted phenomenon encompassing deprivations in multiple dimensions clashes with the vociferous disagreement about how best to measure these deprivations. Drawing...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 112507 Date du document: 20 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Lugo,Maria Ana