A fundamental issue for economists is what determines civil conflict. One unsettled question is the relative importance … personal characteristics, country and year fixed effects, more freedom and economic growth both reduce revolutionary support …. To reduce support by the same amount requires adding 14 percentage points on to the GDP growth rate. Being Muslim in a …

exploit this fact to identify the impact of opening a rural bank on poverty and output. Our estimates suggest that the Indian … rural branch expansion program significantly lowered rural poverty, and increased non-agricultural output. …

appreciable impact on growth and poverty. The evidence presented suggests that land reforms do appear to be associated with …In recent times there has been a renewed interest in relationships between redistribution, growth and welfare. Land … poverty reduction. …

, education, and skills for consumption (rather than production) - can importantly affect patterns of economic growth and …

This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3- dimensional featureless … global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and … converges towards egalitarian growth. Equality is stable but spatial inequality is needed to attain it. …

This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographic point of view. In an extended … rate on the equilibrium growth rate as well as on the income distribution. We show that the relationship between growth and …