The linearity of the relationship between income inequality and economic development has been long questioned. While … inequality and economic development switches from positive to negative at a net Gini of about 27 percent. We also find that in an … negative impact on economic development because banks may curtail credit to customers at the lower end of the income …

improving the quality of institutions (as measured by the "governance effectiveness" indicator in the World Bank's Governance … of the level of development on education outcomes by constructing different efficiency frontiers for lower- and higher …

individual countries' densities into a world aggregate while preserving the non-i.i.d. nature of the global GDP growth …

remarkably low and stable. Was this related to a global disinflation environment triggered by China's integration into world …