We study the capacity to meet food demand under conditions of climate change, economic and population growth. We take a …

linking economic growth and income inequality. …We study a growth model with two types of agents who are heterogeneous in their degree of family altruism. We prove … heterogeneity. When altruism heterogeneity is low, income inequality follows an inverse U-shaped pattern relative to the level of …

the relationship between economic growth and income inequalities. The main objective is to understand how the GDP and GNI … per capita affect income inequality and how they differ. The results suggest a U-shaped relationship of both measures of … economic growth with the market and disposable Gini indexes, the Palma and S80S20 ratios, and the income of the wealthier 10 …

income inequality in the 1990s. In this paper I investigate the causes of unprecedented changes in income distribution using … a unique panel of inequality estimates for 24 transitional countries for the period 1989-1998. The fixed effects model …-sectional studies. The relationship between income inequality, measured by Gini coefficient, and per capita GDP is shown to be positive …

facto JI focusing on countries actually experience. Whether JI affects economic growth is tested for a cross section of 57 … countries. While de iure JI does not have an impact on real GDP growth per capita growth, de facto JI positively influences it. …

standard general equilibrium model of economic growth and endogenously chosen fiscal policy. The government generates tax …

While the short-term growth consequences of natural disasters are comparatively well studied, there is little knowledge … how disasters affect long-run growth. Based on truly exogenous storm indicators, derived from a meteorological database …, we show that the growth effects of tropical storms go well beyond the short-term perspective. These negative growth …

the aim of achieving regional convergence, they should have a positive effect on economic growth. However, it is equally … possible that transfers perpetuate under-development by diminishing regional incentives to implement growth-enhancing policies …. In this paper, we study empirically the effect of intergovernmental transfers on economic growth using the German …