This paper contributes to the debate over the relationship between inequality and growth by proposing that the … disparities in empirical studies derive from the fact that they have not accounted for the level of inequality as a factor that … inequality exert a positive correlation with economic growth while high levels have a negative one. Additionally, and more …

and negative relationship between inequality and share of nutritional consumption as reflected in the consumption of food …. Finally the paper looks at the empirical relationship between inequality and consumption across districts within states of … India. The hypotheses that inequality impacts consumption patterns via status effect cannot be rejected. In fact the impact …

Against the background of inconclusive evidence about the inequality–growth relation, this paper suggests that the … level of inequality increases via the human capital channel with credit market imperfections and that this increasing … inequality negatively affects economic growth. We expand the model presented by Galor and Zeira (1993) to represent the fact that …