Agenda Highlights Summary Notes Session 1: Economic Growth and the Pursuit of Inequality Reduction in Africa Growth and Inequality-Trends and Policy Approachesmic Growth Poverty reduction and shared prosperity: Findings and policy approaches Growth, poverty reduction, and inequality in developing Asia Structural transformation, growth and jobs in developing countries Session 2 Part 1: TECHNOLOGY, PRODUCTIVITY AND WORK: IMPLICATIONS FOR INCLUSIVE GROWTH Trade and Technology: Recent Developments and Distributional Effects in Developing Countries Gottschalk – Catching up and structural transformation What does it take in today’s world Trade, technology and jobs Harnessing Technology for More & Better Jobs: Opportunities & Risks Session 2 Part 2: Trade, informality and employment in a low-income country: The case of Vietnam Exporting, importing and jobs Evidence from Africa Inclusive Growth through SME Competitiveness Labor share of income in Asia: findings, drivers, and policy implications Session 3: Financial globalization, monetary policy and inequality Financialization, inequality and fiscal tightening: not so ambiguous in the data Monetary and Exchange Rate policies for Economic Development Monetary and macroprudential policy and inequality National development banks and inclusive growth HOW DOES FINANCIAL INCLUSION AFFECT ECONOMIC GROWTH, POVERTY AND INCOME INEQUALITY? Session 4: Tax changes and inequality in Latin America over the last decades The Distributional Effects of Government Spending Shocks on Inequality Tobacco Taxation for Health and Development Raising tax revenues without harming equity and employment Special Session: IMF’s policy and operational work on inequality

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