violence to persist over time. The findings thus demonstrate that factors such as inequality, poverty, education and the labour …, poverty, inequality and the labour market are strong predictors of homicide rates in the seven Colombian cities. The results …This paper analyses some determinants of urban violence in seven major Colombian cities. The empirical research is …

Violence is a significant development constraint that generates economic problems, limits public and private … investments, and damages the country’s infrastructure. This paper offers an explanation of violence through an empirical analysis … of Colombian departments that takes into account categories of violence and variables of economic development and the …

rates are influenced by the city's level of development. Moreover, we find evidence that economic growth, inequality …, poverty and human capital influence violence in the cities studied, which could generate negative effects on the economic and …This paper studies the socio-economic determinants of violence in the seven most important cities in Colombia. Derived …

distribution. We find that economic growth is good for the rich in the sense that the mean income of the top decile of the … growth is really good for the really rich. We also find that during economic downturns, the average income of top earners …

Abstract This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the … context of education inequality. The econometric results from a cross-section analysis of 23 provinces in the period of 1996 … income distribution. It also confirms that economic growth has strongly and significantly equalizing effect on the income …

different combination of growth and changes in inequality. Based on this observation, we define four different development …

distribution. We find that economic growth is good for the rich in the sense that the mean income of the top decile of the … growth is really good for the really rich. We also find that during economic downturns, the average income of top earners …

exploit this fact to identify the impact of opening a rural bank on poverty and output. Our estimates suggest that the Indian … rural branch expansion programme significantly lowered rural poverty, and increased non-agricultural output. …