Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...

The very low interest rates and inflation rates of recent years has generated renewed interest in alternative policies that would not leave central banks trapped by the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates. Amongst this debate, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the possibility...

Die weltwirtschaftliche Dynamik bleibt vorerst mäßig. Dabei verlagern sich die Auftriebskräfte weiter von den Schwellenländern zu den fortgeschrittenen Volkswirtschaften. Die Zunahme der Weltproduktion, gerechnet auf Basis von Kaufkraftparitäten, wird in diesem Jahr mit einer Rate von 3,3...