Edited by Carlos Gradín, Research Fellow, UNU-WIDER, Murray Leibbrandt, SARChI Research Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research, SALDRU, University of Cape Town; and Director of the African Centre for Inequality Research; and Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, UNU-WIDER, and Finn Tarp, Professor of Development Economics, University of Copenhagen; and Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, UNU-WIDER

Carlos Gradín is a Research Fellow at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki, and Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Vigo. His main research interest is the study of poverty, inequality, and discrimination in both developed and developing countries, especially inequalities between population groups. His research deals with enhancing the empirical evidence as well as methodological tools for the measurement and understanding of those issues. His research has been widely published in several international journals.

Murray Leibbrandt holds the National Research Foundation Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town. He is the Director of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit and the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research within the African Research Universities Alliance. He is on the Executive Committee of the International Economic Association and is a Senior Research Fellow of UNU-WIDER. From 2007 to 2019 he was a Principal Investigator on the National Income Dynamics Study, South Africa's national longitudinal study. He has published widely in development economics using survey data and especially panel data to analyse South African poverty, inequality, and labour market dynamics.

Finn Tarp is a Professor at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) and Coordinator of the UCPH Development Economics Research Group (DERG). Director of UNU-WIDER from 2009 to 2018, and now a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of UNU-WIDER, Professor Tarp is a leading international expert on development strategy and foreign aid, with an interest in poverty, income distribution, and growth, micro- and macroeconomic policy and modelling, agricultural sector policy and planning, household/enterprise development, and economic adjustment and reform as well as climate change, sustainability, and natural resources. He has published widely in leading economics and development journals and books by international academic publishers.

Raymundo Campos-Vazquez, El Colegio de Mexico
Daniele Checchi, University of Milan
Andrew E. Clark, Paris School of Economics
Andrej Cupak, LIS Cross-National Data Center
Conchita D'Ambrosio, University of Luxembourg
Hai-Anh H. Dang, World Bank
James Davies, University of Western Ontario
Carlos Gradín, UNU-WIDER
Pippa Green, journalist and writer
Peter Lanjouw, VU University Amsterdam
Murray Leibbrandt, University of Cape Town and UNU-WIDER
Shi Li, Zhejiang University
Nora Lustig, Tulane University
Teresa Munzi, LIS Cross-National Data Center
Ambar Narayan, World Bank
Marcelo Neri, Getulio Vargas Foundation
Vimal Ranchhod, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit
Martin Ravallion, Georgetown University
John Scott, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
Terry Sicular, University of Western Ontario
Anthony Shorrocks, Manchester University
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University
Finn Tarp, University of Copenhagen
Roy van der Weide, World Bank

"By bringing together this superb group of authors and deploying their considerable talents to key questions about how and why inequality is changing in some of the world's largest countries — as well as globally — the editors of this volume have done us a tremendous service. In my endorsement of the book, I called it a "must-read" volume and I stand by that assessment. I particularly enjoyed the combination of the three "big-picture" chapters at the outset with the five detailed country studies that follow." - Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Journal of Economic Inequality