While increasing income inequality in China has been commented on and studied extensively, relatively little analysis … is available on inequality in other dimensions of human development. Using data from different sources, this Paper …

strong incentives for product innovations (new luxuries). We show that the inequality-growth relationship depends on which …

theoretical model in which it is positively related to income inequality, more so under weak institutions, and is negatively … informal sector, income inequality, and institutional quality. The results are shown to be robust with respect to a variety of …

This Paper presents theory and evidence on the relationship between inequality and institutional quality. We exhibit a …

possible implications of this key fact by surveying and adapting literature on growth and inequality. I focus especially on the …

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on fiscal conservatism when an increase in inequality affects the …, inequality will then be associated with less, rather than more, redistributive taxation. Furthermore, if the poor are liquidity … constrained then the positive association between inequality and fiscal conservatism will increase the persistence in the dynamics …