This paper analyses the relationship between income inequality and economic growth through fiscal policy. To this end, we present and estimate two systems of structural equiation with error components through which gross income inequality determines different fiscal policy outcomes, which...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to analyse the cross-country variation in the growth elasticity of poverty across a sample of developing countries during the period from 1990 to 2000. Design/methodology/approach – In order to identify variables that may explain the cross-country variation...

Este trabajo parte de la idea de que la reproducción del subdesarrollo brasileño se explica por la persistencia de un conjunto de elementos que operan como obstáculos de carácter estructural, a los que nos referimos con el nombre de límites estructurales al desarrollo económico....