easing entrepreneurial investments for credit-constrained individuals whose investment possibilities depend on their income … entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …

We present evidence that an increase in investment as a share of GDP predicts a higher growth rate of output per worker … coefficients. They are robust to model specifications and estimation methods. The evidence that investment has a long-run effect on …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled … education characteristic of the pre-reform era has given rise to substantial inequality in access to higher levels of education …

continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … role of rising rates of investment. Because labor reallocation across sectors, TFP growth at the sector level and …

billionaires acquired wealth through political connections, the effect of politically connected wealth inequality is negative …A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in … inequality from Forbes magazine's listing of billionaires and compare its effect on growth to the effects of income inequality …

billionaires acquired wealth through political connections, the effect of politically connected wealth inequality is negative …A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in … inequality from Forbes magazine's listing of billionaires and compare its effect on growth to the effects of income inequality …

Although business ownership has implications for income inequality, wealth accumulation and job creation, surprisingly … less successful on average than non-Latino whites. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of Mexican-American entrepreneurship … Population Survey from 1994 to 2004, and the Legalized Population Survey (LPS). We find that low levels of education and wealth …

well. By implication, policies that stimulate investment and R&D and policies that affect the size of the labor force may …

documented by Monte Carlo experiments. An empirical application to modelling of real GDP growth and investment-output ratios … dominant effects are found. The results also suggest that increase in investment as a share of GDP predict higher growth rate …