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Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez
Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez is an Assistant Professor in Development Economics in the Department of International Development,, King’s College London with a particular interest in the study of poverty dynamics, inequalities, social policy, and green development.
He is also a Senior Economic Research Consultant in the Strategic Policy Unit at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He has served as Senior Economist at the UNDP in New York, as Deputy Director of Economic and Social Analysis at the Mexican Ministry of Social Development and has done extensive consultancy work for international organisations and national governments, including the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and UNU-WIDER.
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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
