and poverty. We find that wealth inequality reduces economic growth, but when we control for the fact that some …, while politically unconnected wealth inequality, income inequality, and initial poverty have no significant effect. …

benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of …

Despite the increasing importance of remittances in total international capital flows, the relationship between … remittances and growth has not been adequately studied. This paper studies one of the links between remittances and growth, in … particular how local financial sector development influences a country's capacity to take advantage of remittances Using a newly …

This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a …-level investment is also negatively related to several measures of poverty. Overall, our results indicate that firm-level capital … reducing inequality and poverty. Our results may also be beneficial to policy makers as they consider a variety of regulatory …

This paper investigates the impact of financial liberalization on remittances to 84 countries over five-year intervals … reform impact remittances differently. Increased economic freedom in the financial sector, captured by absence of direct … remittances is slightly negative. Our results suggest that countries using liberalization to cope with external imbalances will …

and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life … period and by the most conservative definition, over 120 million additional years were spent in poverty because of the … poverty burden, on the contrary, declines with per capita national incomes when a constant absolute poverty line is used, or …