This paper estimates the relationship between initial village inequality and subsequent household income growth for a … for an array of household and village characteristics, the paper finds that households located in higher inequality … villages experienced significantly lower income growth through the 1990s. However, local inequality’s predictive power and …

channel linking current poverty to subsequent growth and poverty reduction. However, high current inequality is only a …

income inequality is greater. …

exclusion. This may then lead to a feedback mechanism whereby inequality in the incidence of public spending on education breeds … higher income inequality, thus generating multiple equilibria: with social exclusion and high inequality; and with social … inclusion and relatively low inequality. The author also shows that the latter equilibrium leads to higher long-run growth than …