This paper examines the relationship between trade (exports), growth, and inequality, using a panel of 100 countries … of trade (exports) on growth. The findings are that in general trade openness advances growth while inequality reduces … growth. However, when we identify an inequality threshold, we find that inequality is positively associated with growth if …

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 …

institutions, natural resource rents cease to have a negative impact on long-term growth. Institutions in resource-based economies … foster economic growth when voice and accountability are in place; broad-based rule of law is enforced with secure property …

Using illustrations from research on inequality, this paper offers evidence on the strengths of 'behavioural synthesis … and relative inequality have evolved from assumptions of income maximization to status-seeking competition, and to … conclude that methodological pluralism, i.e. scientific integration, is necessary when it comes to understanding inequality and …

Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between … 2006 and 2014, inequality was again on the rise. We apply decomposition techniques to analyse the proximate determinants of … labour income inequality and fiscal incidence analysis to estimate the first-order effects of taxes and social spending on …

This paper undertakes an assessment of the evolution of inequality in the distribution of consumption expenditure in …' rather than 'rightist' or 'leftist' inequality measures, lead to a picture of inequality in the distribution of consumption … expenditure widening over time, which is at odds with the impression of more or less unchanging inequality conveyed in some of the …

groups (relative to non-exporters). Wage inequality within exporters is not driven by exporting but rather by characteristics …

over the past quarter century. It argues that external liberalization led to faster export growth but not to faster GDP or … productivity growth. Growth also became more volatile, reflecting large vulnerabilities to external shocks. Looking forward, it …

. A series of shocks, especially the fuel and food price crisis of 2008, combined with poor productivity growth in …