Review essay, “The 2006 world development report: Equity and development”

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Who Cares about Relative Deprivation (2005, unknown): “Yet income inequality is relatively high, with a Gini index around 0.50 (World Bank, 2005a).”
Measuring inequality of opportunity with imperfect data: the case of Turkey (2010, background): “See Roemer (2006), and Bourguignon, Ferreira and Walton (2007).”
A Comparative Perspective on Poverty Reduction in Brazil, China, and India (2009, background): “These are the author’s views and should not be attributed to the World Bank or any affiliated organization. 1. The headcount index and the Gini index have been the most popular measures in the literature and policy discussions, but they are not necessarily the best. The headcount index does not refl”
Globalisation, Education and Development: Ideas, Actors and Dynamics (2007, background): “He quotes the draft copy of the World Bank’s World Development Report 2006 which states that ‘high levels of political inequality can lead to the design of economic institutions and social arrangements that systematically favour the interests of those with more influence’ (World Bank, 2006a: 1).”