Matthew Cummins

TL;DR: The authors provides an overview of global, regional and national income inequalities based on the latest distribution data from the World Bank, UNU-WIDER and Eurostat, discusses the negative implications of rising income inequality for development, calls for placing equity at the center of development in the context of the United Nations development agenda and describes the likelihood of inequalities being exacerbated during the global economic crisis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors briefly review possible causes of the food price spike that began in mid-2010 and examine recent local food price movements in 58 developing countries during 2010; discuss the adverse impacts of food price increases on households; and present a rapid desk review of international and domestic policy responses in 98 developing countries under a three-pillar policy framework.

TL;DR: The authors examined the latest IMF government spending projections for 181 countries by comparing the four distinct periods of 2005-07 (pre-crisis), 2008-09 (crisis phase I: fiscal expansion), 2010-12 (c crisis phase II: onset of fiscal contraction) and 2013-15 (c Crisis phase III: intensification of fiscal contracting) to identify the main adjustment measures considered in high-income and developing countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the latest IMF government spending projections for 128 developing countries, comparing the three periods of 2005-07 (pre-crisis), 2008-09 (crisis phase I: fiscal expansion) and 2010-12 (Crisis phase II: fiscal contraction), and discussed the possible risks for social expenditures.

TL;DR: The authors presented empirical estimates of a gravity model of bilateral migration that properly accounts for non-linearities and tackles causality issues through an instrumental variables approach, and evaluated the effect of migration on origin and destination country income using the geographically determined component of migration as a source of exogenous variation.