Using newly comprehensive data and tools from the Global Consumption and Income Project or CGIP, covering most of the world and five decades, we present a portrait of the changing global distribution of consumption and income and discuss its implications for our understanding of inequality,...

This paper provides a critical review of the recent literature on inequality and growth. After discussing historical and more recent distributional trends as well as empirical evidence on the relationship between inequality and growth, I focus on recent explanations of the inequality-growth...

This research study summarises the effects of corruption in Brazil and its effects on the economic growth of the country, both on the governmental and corporate level. By making use of the theoretical approach of Pak Hung Mo and his model of the economic growth which takes into consideration...

Weltweit ist Wirtschaftswachstum vorherrschendes Ziel, trotz ernsthafter Konflikte mit ökologischer Nachhaltigkeit. Ist „Wachstumspolitik“ nur eine Frage des politischen oder persönlichen Willens, oder gibt es „Wachstumszwänge“, die sie „unausweichlich“ machen? Und warum...

The transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has substantially shifted the policy debate from growth to inclusive growth. In this short note, we revisit the trust-growth nexus by exploiting a dataset on quality of growth (QG), recently made...

The planners and policymakers in India have been underscoring higher economic growth as an outcome as well as a prime-mover of development policies. However, while discussing about the economic growth both as an instrument and as an outcome, the question that inherently arises is whether...

Besides the often mentioned driving factors behind inequality like globalization, demography, technological progress, or the different accumulation of human capital financial development and the structure of the financial sector were long overlooked. Furthermore, the economic analysis of income...

Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and, in this way, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the...

This paper studies the growth dynamics of a developing country under migration. Assuming that human capital formation is subject to a strong enough, positive intertemporal externality, the prospect of migration will increase growth in the home country in the long run. If the external effect is...

This paper studies the growth dynamics of a developing country under migration. Assuming that human capital formation is subject to a strong enough, positive intertemporal externality, the prospect of migration will increase growth in the home country in the long run. If the external effect is...