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 …

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … first is that the thresholds used to classify countries by the World Bank and extensively used by aid agencies, albeit with …

poverty line. The patterns of growth, precarity, and structural change underlying the emergence of the world's two middles are …

consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. … unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark …

This paper examines the relationship between trade (exports), growth, and inequality, using a panel of 100 countries … over 30 years (1980 to 2010). As there is no clear theoretical relationship between trade (exports) and inequality, and as … inequality can be considered a proxy for 'governance quality', the paper also tests for a threshold in inequality for the effect …

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 …

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 …

relative to earlier literature. In particular, we use the latest version of the UNU-WIDER' Income Inequality Database to have … the best available estimates of both pre- and post-redistribution inequality for the largest set of countries and periods …