convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty to an acceptable margin, there appears to be little concrete policy … possibly rising inequality would ensure that a great many would fall through the cracks, and not benefit from high growth, even …This paper focuses on the role of "institutions" in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are …

from this safety net, and the presence of unemployed members pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also …

This paper focuses on the role of "institutions" in the fight against poverty and inequality. Our view of institutions … of poverty, inequality and institutions are expounded on a priori reasoning, empirical analysis with LAC data prove …'s civilisation. The inclusion of health, nutrition, and literacy indicators in defining well-being (or, non-income poverty à la …

also imply, however, that this reduction in income inequality comes at a cost. High partcipartion rates are related to …

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. …

structural change, new firms and innovations and therefore possibly also nowadays for employment growth. …

In this paper we study the link between elections, fiscal policy and economic growth/fluctuations. The set-up is a … dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of growth and endogenously chosen fiscal policy, in which two political parties … economic growth. The model is estimated using quarterly data for Germany, the UK and the US from 1960 to 1999. Our econometric …

relationship between inflation, finance, and economic growth across countries, arguing that long-run growth considerations provide …. Third, I review some further aspects of the relationship between fiscal policy and economic growth, emphasizing the … growth. The argument leads to the conclusion that only the stabilization function of fiscal policy and perhaps also some …

There is much disagreement about both the facts and the explanations of income inequality. Even if we confine attention … to OECD countries, we find people arguing that there has been a great U-turn, with inequality rising sharply after its … countries. It is widely believed that rising inequality is attributable to technological change and to globalisation. The second …