, we find no evidence that SMEs alleviate poverty or decrease income inequality …

-determination of growth and income inequality in both the closed and open economy, as well as the spillover effects of policy and …

GDP per capita and within-country income inequality in the world today. Indicators of early development such as early … do not predict income inequality as well as measures of the ethnic or linguistic heterogeneity of the current population …'s ancestors. An even better predictor of current inequality in a country is the variance of early development history of the …

person in the world. We then estimate the gaussian kernel density function for the worldwide distribution of income. We … compute world poverty rates by integrating the density function below the poverty lines. The $1/day poverty rate has fallen … million less poor people in 1998 than there were in the 70s. We estimate global income inequality using seven different …

Quah's [1993a] transition matrix analysis of world income distribution based on annual data suggests an ergodic …, but a prolonged transition, during which some inequality measures increase. The rosy ergodic forecast and prolonged …

This paper describes the correlations between inequality and the growth rates in cross-country data. Using non …-parametric methods, we show that the growth rate is an inverted U-shaped function of net changes in inequality: Changes in inequality (in … this non-linearity is sufficient to explain why previous estimates of the relationship between the level of inequality and …

Evidence from a broad panel of countries shows little overall relation between income inequality and rates of growth … and investment. However, for growth, higher inequality tends to retard growth in poor countries and encourage growth in … richer places. The Kuznets curve-whereby inequality first increases and later decreases during the process of economic …

forces thought to have an impact on inequality can be offset or reinforced" by demography, skill supply and globalization … impact on GDP per capita growth. The answers to these two questions are sought by" looking at inequality and growth … experience in the Old World, the New World last century and a half …

-seeking abilities, as well as with the gap between rich and poor. It is not income inequality per se that matters, but inequality in the … inequality permanent, or gradually narrowing? Equivalently, is there conver- gence not only in first moments (GDP per capita …