This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …

uninsurable labor income risk, and economic growth in a small open overlapping-generations economy with heterogeneous agents. It … impact of higher inequality on the aggregate human capital stock, and thus, on growth may be positive. This result rests on …

Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a … top decile's income share is associated with a statistically significant 0.12 point rise in GDP growth during the … inequality is permanent, the increase in growth appears to be permanent. However, our estimates imply that it would take 13 years …

A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less … corruption, inequality and shadow economies are considerably large. We use Panel Least Square and Fixed Effects Models for Asia … to find that both Corruption Perception Index and ICRG index are sensitive to a number of important macroeconomic …

growth of all firms, particularly micro and small firms. On the other hand, corruption and poor access to infrastructure …, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at …-linearities in their impact on employment growth. The results suggest strong composition effects: A weak business environment shifts …

entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from corruption, and on 'market freedom' defined as a cluster of … extent of corruption. A cluster of institutional indicators representing 'market freedom' is only significant in some … specifications. Freedom from corruption is significantly related to entrepreneurial entry, especially when the richest countries are …

corruption, weaker property rights and especially intellectual property rights, and a larger state on entrepreneurs who plan to …

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption … that the shadow economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. We … also find that stricter regulations increase both corruption and the shadow economy. …

The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy is not clear. Theoretically, they either substitute or … two latent variables - extracts information on various dimensions of corruption and the shadow economy to contribute to … corruption. The results show that the shadow economy influences corruption more than corruption influences the shadow economy. …

into growth, redistribution, poverty standard and residual components are described. In parametric approaches the dynamics …