This paper provides an overview of the modern perspective on the relationship between inequality and economic … development. …

beneficial in early stages of development, generated in later stages a hurdle for human capital accumulation and economic growth … from an agrarian to an industrial economy generating diverging growth patterns across countries. Land abundance, which was … of industrialization affected the transition to modern growth and has brought about changes in the ranking of countries …

-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe … effect on the process of development and contributed to the contemporary variation in the standard of living across countries. …

comparative development. We also show that ethnic inequality goes in tandem with lower levels development also within countries … countries. We construct measures of ethnic inequality combining ethnolinguistic maps on the spatial distribution of groups with … satellite images of light density at night. Ethnic inequality is strongly inversely related to per capita income; this pattern …

Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to … dramatic transformations in the past century. While Classical economists advanced the hypothesis that inequality is beneficial … for economic development, the Neoclassical paradigm, which had subsequently dominated the field of macroeconomics …

variation in economic development. It uncovers the forces that have sparked the emergence of multiple growth regimes and …This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per … capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the …

diversity and economic development depend substantially on coding errors and sample selection. We correct the coding errors and … hypothesis that variation in genetic diversity among subpopulations has a systematic relationship with economic development. …

characteristics or state capabilities as explanatory variables for the effectiveness of public spending in various social areas. …

-industrial economic conditions. We hypothesize that if these countries are arrayed on a continuum of pre-industrial development such as … have achieved more rapid post-War growth, due to more favorable pre-conditions. A cross-country data analysis supports this …