John Hawkins has been an economic analyst and forecaster in the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Treasury. Australia’s economy edged closer back towards normal in the three months to March ...

In 2022, 22.6% of the national income went to the top 1% of Indians. Cut to 1951, their share in the income was only 11.5% and even lower in the 1980s — just before India opened up its economy — at 6% ...

Does the distribution of income within a country become more equal as it grows richer? This paper uses plausibly exogenous variations in trade-weighted world income and international oil price shocks ...