countries (representing 85 percent of the world population) from 1960-2012. Since 1988, inequality has marginally decreased …Within the fundamental determinants of cross-country income inequality, ‘humanly devised' political institutions … inequality explainable by differences in political institutions, we decompose annual cross-country Gini coefficients for 95 …

This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the … between globalization and income inequality differs across different groups of countries. There is a robust positive … relationship between globalization and inequality in the transition countries including China and most countries of Middle and …

This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries, taking into account the … different for upper, middle, and low-income countries, urbanization shows a very different impact on emissions for low and lower …

In this paper we determine the main driving forces underlying the structural transformation and urbanization process in … barriers played in China's growth and urbanization. We find that the primary drivers for real per capita GDP growth are … migration cost reduction and skill accumulation. While trade liberalization is important for urbanization during the transition …

estimate the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provide corrected incomes. The bias is … income inequality is substantially underestimated. Our methodological contribution is to exploit the analogies between PPP …

theoretical framework for the relationship between structural reforms, economic growth and income inequality. We argue that … inequality. We conclude by proposing a 7-point agenda for future research …

We analyze the link between financial development and income inequality for a broad unbalanced dataset of up to 138 … results reject theoretical models predicting a negative impact of financial development on income inequality measured by the … positive effect on income inequality. These results are robust to different measures of financial development, econometric …

Credit rationing in the presence of asset inequality affects production and trade pattern in this paper, but not in the …

This paper investigates the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income in the world … using data on 167 countries over the period 1995-2012, collected from the World Bank data set. The analysis is carried using …