involves the estimation of simple equations for GDP growth and conventional inequality measures, augmented to include, among … infrastructure assets, and (2) income inequality declines with higher infrastructure quantity and quality. A variety of specification … quality on growth and inequality. These two results combined suggest that infrastructure development can be highly effective …

inequality may be very different from those in true inequality, that is, that measured using household-specific CPIs. The authors … the inflation faced by the poorest consumers. As a result of this bias, the observed increases in nominal inequality … generally exceed the actual changes in real inequality. These results are robust to correcting for quality change bias in the …

of per capita income has important implications for the relative roles of income growth and inequality changes in poverty … tolerate modest increases in income inequality in exchange for faster growth-more so than richer and highly unequal countries. …

has focused on the impact of income inequality and growth. Less attention has been paid to the link between inequality and … which income inequality can affect aggregate saving. The authors present new econometric evidence on the link between saving … and inequality using new data on income distribution for a large cross-country sample. The results provide no evidence …