income of the poor through growth. This new and unequivocal finding distinguishes the current study from past studies that …

This paper examines support for reducing inequality and for income redistribution to specific groups in Europe and … of support for reducing inequality. …

This paper presents a new methodology to measure inequality that optimally combines household survey information and …

: a strong persistencein the growth rate of a country's exports. The authors shift the spotlight to this phenomenon and …

The author provides theoretical and empirical evidence of a negative association between income inequality and real … exchange rates. First, he builds a theoretical model showing the transmission mechanism from inequality to real exchange rates … findings provide empirical support for Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, government strategies agreed on with the World Bank …

involves the estimation of simple equations for GDP growth and conventional inequality measures, augmented to include, among … quality on growth and inequality. These two results combined suggest that infrastructure development can be highly effective … economically quite significant, and highlight the growth acceleration and inequality reduction that would result from increased …

The median voter hypothesis is important to endogenous growth theories because it provides the political mechanisms … blunting incentives, reduce the country's growth rate. But he hypothesis was never properly tested because of lack of data on …

in terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of policy shocks. These approaches … different results in absolute terms, they show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and poverty …

Policy recommendations to reduce the growth of public spending are haunted by the inevitability of two factors. First …

The difficulties most Latin American countries have experienced in returning to sustained growth after the world … this concern better placed than Brazil, with roughly 45 million people living in households below the poverty line in1987 … neighbors in per capita growth and inflation between 1982-88. Brazil, by choosing an expansionary fiscal path, traded growth in …