technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain households are poverty trapped, that the initial distribution of wealth …

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 …

aim to reflect local perceptions of poverty. This paper demonstrates how such a measure can be constructed, using data … from a field experiment on poverty targeting in Indonesia. It then explores the potential impact of using this welfare … used as a meaningful basis for targeting and poverty measurement. …

This paper puts forward a method to estimate average economic growth, andits associated confidence bounds, which does …

Time varying patterns in US growth are analyzed using various univariate model structures, starting from a naive model … conditional variance are specified together with their interaction, including survey data on expected growth in order to … forecasting performance of the various model specifications. The extension of a basic growth model with a constant mean to models …

well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …

In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a … method to decompose Income Satisfaction Inequality according to the contributions from variables such as income, education …