In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …

-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …

To investigate the role of intra-regional trade integration on economic growth in Latin America, we develop a … factor for explaining growth, while the importance of domestic spillovers is limited. The growth volatility is substantively …

Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health … growth and the income responsiveness of health. We investigate whether these conditions held in Europe in the nineties using … panel data from the European Community Household Panel surveys. We use pooled interval regressions and inequality …

associations with the allocations to estimate responsibility-sensitive weights that reflect inequality aversion and health … non-smokers, respectively. Inequality aversion lowers weights on females and non-smokers, who are health-advantaged, and …

structural change in industrial import patterns is in principleambiguous. A standard empirical growth model is augmented by … activitiesimpact differently on economic growth is tested on a sample of 45 countries (OECD members andselected Asian and Latin … estimation pointtowards a positive long-run growth effect arising from trade specialization in medium …