What is the relationship between inequality and growth? This question has occupied and fascinated social scientists for … interplay between inequality and economic growth. Inequality might come in many forms: (top) incomes, wages, wealth, land, or … potential for growth to 'take off'. We consider causality running from inequality to growth; hence, the Kuznets hypothesis is …

Urbanization is one of the critical global trends shaping the future of humanity. At the same time, it has been argued … of urbanization in Uganda and what this means for urban policy planning and poverty reduction in the country. Although … the history of urbanization in Uganda is relatively young compared to other East African countries, the rate of urban …

This paper reviews the literature on the forces driving urbanization in developing countries. It presents a model …

period. At the same time, inequality has risen over the past 20 years and spatial inequality, in both monetary and non …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …

African development; (ii) income distribution, inequality, and poverty; and (iii) economic structure, interdependence, and …

In this paper we reassess the relationship between inequality and human development, focusing on the differential … distributive data consistent across countries and over time (World Income Inequality Database companion datasets). We show how the … concentration of income at the bottom and top, rather than overall inequality, is negatively associated with human development. This …

approach is also employed to rigorously examine the poverty-growth-inequality triangle. Finally, various simple but useful and …