Income Distribution, Inequality and Poverty: Evidence, Explanations and Policies

Dear Colleagues,

In many developed and developing countries, income distribution has evolved in recent decades, leading to rising rich–poor disparity, a shrinking middle class, and an increase in public demand for redistribution. There is also increasingly compelling evidence that growing income inequality has negative consequences for economic growth and poverty reduction, and tends to exacerbate the risk of crises of different kinds (social, financial, economic, and even migration). Thus, after the Great Recession of 2007–2009 and the more recent COVID-19 pandemic, which renewed concerns about inequality, poverty, and the ability of the global economy to fully recover from the ensuing crises, the issue of inequality in income distribution has returned to the forefront of economics research, after having long been ignored by economists and social scientists in general.

The goal of this Special Issue is to yield a better understanding of domestic and international patterns of income distribution. The Editor encourages submissions providing applied economic analyses of inequality and poverty trends, their fundamental determinants and main policy implications, both in a comparative perspective and in single countries. The scope of submission also includes original research articles proposing advances in the field of econometric methods for the measurement of inequality and poverty.

Dr. Fabio Clementi
Guest Editor

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