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. …

countries. The same result is also obtained for the e¤ects of ICT and mass media on economic inequality,. However, ICT reveals … itself inequal- ity increasing for the developing country sample but inequality decreasing for the entire sample. Finally …, lower poverty is robustly associated with higher media (newspaper circulation) penetration. …

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 …

This paper investigates the overlap between employment status and poverty, drawing particular attention to the working … is undertaken using the Kyrgyz Poverty Monitoring Survey, which is the only survey to date that allows a comprehensive … analysis of poverty and labor market outcomes in the Kyrgyz Republic. The period under investigation covers the years 1997 …

We consider the potential importance of labour market efficiency for aggregate growth. The idea is that efficient … labour markets move workers more quickly from low to high productivity sites, thereby raising aggregate productivity growth … data on 15 OECD countries, we estimate this and show that it has a significant effect on growth. The results are robust to …

Abstract Commentators on the `East Asian Miracle' of inclusive growth have often pointed toward shared rural growth … bolster political incentives through contributions. Economies with a stronger middle class due to lower inequality or lower …