An influential paper by Berg et al., 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence', uses the SWIID data to … examine the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth in both developing and developed countries. It finds that while … inequality is harmful for growth, redistribution does not hamper growth. This comment demonstrates that the redistribution and …

The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution is ongoing. We construct a model … inequality leads to more redistribution in democracies but not necessarily in autocracies. Using the new data on Non … that predicts higher probability of redistribution in democracies than autocracies through social transfers. Higher …

economic inequality affects voting and other forms of political participation. This evidence is largely driven by advanced …. In line with prior theoretical expectations, we find a negative association between inequality and voting for the …The political consequences of economic inequality have been debated in academic and policy circles for centuries. The …

This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The … opportunity to study slow development processes. The empirical inequality-development studies have started to call into question …

the major source, followed by the 'growth mobility'. The comparison with income inequality indicated that the low degree … of mobility is not conducive to the narrowing of inequality. However, the high degree is not accompanied by the …

more concerned with development, and establishes the degree of inequality at the time of independence in the late 1950s and … early 1960s. What was the colonial legacy? How far did colonial inequality persist post-independence? …

interpersonal inequality during 1975-2005 are measured using data from UNU-WIDER's World Income Inequality Database. In order to … better understand the trends, global interpersonal inequality is decomposed into within-country and between …-country inequality. The paper illustrates that the relationship between global interpersonal inequality and these constituent components …

This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the … empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the … forces that determine inequality change, focusing on factor accumulation and structural change. Next it considers the …