case studies rather than cross-country regression analysis; (ii) the phenomenon of increasing inequality; (iii) different …) alternative modes of redistribution in face of inequality increasing tendencies. …

inequality. Theoretically, there are grounds for both a positive and negative relationship between the two variables. Our main … finding is that financial development contributes to reducing inequality up to a point, but as financial development proceeds … further, it contributes to greater inequality. We also find that when the ratio of primary schooling to total schooling …

although there has been substantial economic growth, only a relatively small group of the new middle-income countries have … poverty line. The patterns of growth, precarity, and structural change underlying the emergence of the world's two middles are …