Abstract
This selection of International Labour Review articles illustrates how research on poverty and inequality has evolved over the last century. These topics received only occasional attention in the early decades of the ILR, but they acquired more prominence from the 1970s on, especially through articles based on research carried out under the ILO's World Employment Programme in the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1990s ILR articles looked into concepts of poverty and social exclusion and the impact of economic reform. More recent publications have treated economic and social inequality within wider analyses of growth and development. There remains scope for closer integration of different instruments and approaches to poverty and inequality.