unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health … indicates that global inequality would be underestimated if within-country inequality is not taken into account. Moreover …

The cross-country relationship between Covid-19 crude mortality rates and previously measured income inequality and … poverty in the pandemic’s first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a sample of 141 countries. An … income. Poverty as measured by the $1.90 per day standard has a small negative association with death rates. The elasticity …

and bad growth prospects, and that these adverse effects are more severe in volatile countries with bad institutions and …

contribution to growth. Estimates of the long-run numeracy development of most countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, America … numeracy as measured by the age-heaping strategy for long-run economic growth. In a variety of specifications, numeracy … mattered quite strongly for growth patterns around the globe. …

This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance … seigniorage finance. This leads to an increase in inflation which, in turn, reduces capital accumulation and growth. At the …

. We challenge this view by arguing that a number of judicial procedures foster economic growth by increasing the … economic growth of 15 judicial procedures. Employing a standard growth model, we find in a cross-section of 67 countries that … timeliness, writtenas opposed to oralprocedures, and the right to counsel have a positive effect on growth, whereas the number of …

between political stability and economic growth which is stronger and empirically more robust in countries with high … bureaucratic costs. Motivated by these results, which contrast with previous contributions, we develop a model of growth with … between the probability that the incumbent politician remains in office and average economic growth in the presence of high …

-driven comparative studies about the impact of autocratic transition on real per capita GDP. The applied methodology compares the growth … of countries that experienced a transition to autocracy with the growth of a convex combination of similar countries that …