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 …

JI has a robust and highly significant impact on economic growth. Individual components of both de jure and de facto JI … on economic growth are estimated for their impact on economic growth. Additionally, the effects of other institutional …

This paper examines whether growth regressions should incorporate dualism and structural change. If there is a … factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than … labour can explain a significant fraction of the international variation in TFP growth. …

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

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

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 …

Education has been one of the key determinants of economic growth around the world since 1965. In this paper, we … the Gini coefficient as well as to economic growth across countries. The three measures are: (a) gross secondary … countries at all income levels, we also find that more and better education appears to encourage economic growth directly as …