-income countries, inequality has a significant negative effect on transitional growth. For the median country in the world that in 2015 …This paper estimates a panel model in which the relationship between inequality and gross domestic product per capita … growth depends on countries' initial incomes. Estimates of the model show that the relationship between inequality and gross …

This paper revisits four recent cross-country empirical studies on the effects of inequality on growth. All four … these inequality-and-growth regressions are weak, and that weak instrument-consistent confidence sets for the effect of … inequality on growth include a wide range of positive and negative values. This suggests that strong conclusions about the effect …

This paper estimates the effect of income inequality on real gross domestic product per capita using a panel of 104 … estimation and controlling for country and time fixed effects. The analysis finds that, on average, income inequality has a … inequality has a significant positive effect on gross domestic product per capita …

This paper re-examines the roles of changes in income and inequality in poverty reduction. The study provides estimates … of the relative effects of inequality reduction versus growth promotion in reducing poverty for countries with different … less poor, inequality-reducing policies are likely to become relatively more effective for poverty reduction than growth …

relative importance of growth and inequality changes for changes in social welfare. In a large panel of industrial and … due to changes in average incomes. In contrast, the changes in inequality observed during this period are on average much …

uses a database assembled by the World Bank Group to investigate some basic characteristics of shared prosperity …, particularly its relationship with overall economic growth and inequality. Initial estimates using this dataset of 79 countries … inequality, the paper discusses two main ideas. First, shared prosperity is strongly correlated with overall prosperity implying …

Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be … Surveys, to revisit the question of whether inequality is associated with economic growth and, in particular, to examine … whether inequality of opportunity -- driven by circumstances at birth -- has a negative effect on subsequent growth. The …

This analysis examines the relationship between nonrenewable resource dependence, economic growth and income inequality …-income countries, greater nonrenewable natural resource dependence is associated with lower income inequality, while there is no … resources is associated with both higher levels of income inequality and lower per capita GDP. Further analysis focusing on a …

the world. It is based on 136 impact evaluations (randomized and quasi-experimental studies) that explore the effects of …