Do the poor face the same prospects for escaping poverty in high-inequality developing countries as in low-inequality … countries? Is it possible for inequality to be so great as to stifle prospects of reducing absolute poverty, even when other … distribution does affect how much the poor share in rising average incomes. Higher initial inequality tends to reduce growth …

-poor (including the role played by both initial inequality and changing inequality), and whether the factors that make the …

turns out not to be a fact at all. Growth's effects on inequality can go either way and are contingent on several other … inequality. Possibly measurement errors confound the true relationship, but they think it more likely that the relationship … process will tend to be lower, the higher the extent of initial inequality. A smaller share of total income must imply a …