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Andy Sumner
Kings College London
Andy Sumner is a Professor of International Development at King's College London and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at UNU-WIDER and the Center for Global Development, Washington DC. His research focuses on issues of inequality and economic development.
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The post-pandemic global inequality boomerang
Global inequality has fallen over the last three decades, despite a rise in inequality within some countries. This article uses a World Bank database covering the years 1981-2019 to posit that the decline in global inequality will reverse in the coming years, driven by the between-country component of inequality, with the unequal recovery from the Covid crisis likely to hasten the reversal. Thus, the narrative of declining global inequality could prove temporary
04 July 2022
Poverty Inequality
Poverty & Inequality
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