Our goal is to examine the income inequality and welfare effects of the direct distribution of resource rents and … tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative … rents-induced inequality. …

interrelationships between inequality and economic growth. This paper develops a simple model to establish that the change in income …, inequality and growth bear a non-linear relationship: for low values of inequality, economic growth rate is an inverted U … result, the relationship between growth and inequality can take the form of a wave. This simple theoretical model is a …

documented by Monte Carlo experiments. An empirical application to modelling of real GDP growth and investment-output ratios … dominant effects are found. The results also suggest that increase in investment as a share of GDP predict higher growth rate …

-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA applications related to general well-being, inequalities, poverty and human …

We discuss the sustainability of Chinese high growth relative to growth experience elsewhere, and specifically Soviet … Russia in the 1950s to the 1960s by asking if the aggregate technology can eventually similarly constrain high growth … that the substitution elasticity is greater than one. We then discuss how sub aggregate high growth can occur when there …

Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance … across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of … economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible …

We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … off-shoring”) is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way … productivity growth is there with our direct measures based on input-output data but disappears when either a broad measure or the …

retard economic growth, even to the point of leading to an economic collapse. Premature adult mortality may exacerbate … inequality under nuclear family arrangements. Pooling mortality risks with equal treatment of all children may fend off, or even …