Structural change has a far-reaching impact on inequality. Extensive structural change is both a cause and consequence … a historically unprecedented rate. The region has already begun the difficult and complex task of addressing inequality …

Structural change has a far-reaching impact on inequality. It exposes the population to challenges and opportunities …. Foreign trade and technological progress have been widely put forth as a structural driver of inequality. Broader structural … change, such as demographic transition, can also impinge upon inequality. Structural change in developing Asia has been …

The aim of this paper is to trace, comparatively, the path of both development and democracy among Former Soviet … refers to “contestation” as the essential feature of democracy. Development is identified with the general progress of human … beings (Ray, 1998), which can be better captured by the Human Development Index, and which does not include income …

emigration (as measured by the general emigration rate) has a positive effect on home-country institutional development (as …

The empirical literature on the relationship between inequality and growth offers a contradictory assessment … mechanisms generating a positive inequality-growth relationship work mainly in the short-run and are reflected in difference …

The empirical literature on the relationship between inequality and growth offers a contradictory assessment …-based methods are prone to reflect the mostly positive shortor medium-run implications of inequality while the level … overall impact of inequality in the long run. …

and suggest that some of the previous findings regarding the effect of income inequality on development should be … better than income inequality when both are treated as endogenous. To do so, we identify instruments for ethnic … fractionalization and income inequality based on historical experience. Using instrumental variables estimation, we find that ethnic …