Muhammad Shabeer2025-07-312025-07-312019-11-22https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/4195Sustainable development goals are the aims set by the UN for member countries to achieve till 2030. Out of seventeen goals, one important goal is to achieve income equality with in societies and across the world. Statistics show that equality among member countries has increased but equality within countries is still a challenge. There is a need to identify the factors that can reduce income inequality within countries. This study initially took 92 countries whose GINI index was higher than 0.30 and later classify them into four income groups to assess the separate effect of globalization, institution, technology, conflicts, financial developments and human developments on income inequality in these cross sections. Time period is taken from 2001 to 2017 to make a panel of 92 countries and 17 years. Five models are constructed, one for all sample countries and other four for four types of countries on the basis of the World Bank income classification. Feasible generalized least square (FGLS -hetero) approach is used for estimation. This study indicates that globalization, institutions, technology, financial development, human capital development have different impacts on income inequality in different types of countries.en-USThesis