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Income Distribution: Effects on Growth and Development

Birdsall, Nancy - 2007

underdeveloped markets for capital and information; (2) by discouraging the evolution of the economic and political institutions …

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The rise, fall and revival of the Swedish welfare state : what are the policy lessons from Sweden?

Bergh, Andreas - 2011

exceptionalism: Sweden became rich because of well-functioning capitalist institutions, and inequality was low before the expansion … state ; equality ; growth ; institutions ; capitalism …

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Alberto Alesina (1957-2020) : man, researcher, Professor of Economics, popularizer

Vindigni, Andrea - 2023

This paper offers an overview of Alberto Alesina's life and of his scholarly work (§ 1 and 2). It will be argued, that Alberto would have entirely deserved the award of the Nobel Prize for Economic Science, except only for his premature passing away. His foundational contribution was the...

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Factor shares, redistribution and growth in a captured democracy

Vindigni, Andrea - 2024

A model of endogenous growth is presented, based on productive public expenditures, and featuring some degree of income inequality, and polarization in policy preferences. The main innovation lays in the political process determining capital taxation that relies, both on voting and on "influence...

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The Elusive Quest for Inclusive Growth : Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in Asia

Balakrishnan, Ravi - 2013

This paper assesses how pro-poor and inclusive Asia's recent growth has been, and what factors have been driving these outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a...

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Fiscal capacity and social protection expenditure in developing nations

Murshed, Syed Mansoob; Badiuzzaman, Muhammad; Pulok, … - 2017

There is scant analysis on the causal relationship between fiscal capacity and social protection expenditure in the developing world. We investigate the causal relationship between fiscal capacity of the state and social protection expenditure, hypothesizing that fiscal capacity is necessary but...

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The economics of inclusion : building an argument for a shared society

Valenti, Michael A.; Giovannoni, Olivier - 2013

institutions on development, the costs of fractionalization, and research on the policies of social inclusion around the world …. -- shared societies ; economic inclusion ; institutions ; economic growth ; income distribution …

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Income Distribution : Effects on Growth and Development

Birdsall, Nancy - 2007

underdeveloped markets for capital and information; (2) by discouraging the evolution of the economic and political institutions …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012729524

Growth, Inequality and Economic Freedom : Evidence from the US States

Bjørnskov, Christian - 2015

This paper returns to the discussion of how income inequality affects economic growth. The main argument is that economic freedom is likely to affect the association although the relations are theoretically ambiguous. In a panel of 300 observations from five-year periods across the 50 US states,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012727

Assessing the institutions-innovation channel within the inequality-growth nexus

Sun, Yang; Easaw, Joshy Z.; Logothetis, Vassilis - 2023

The present paper assesses the interactions between innovation and economic institutions within the context of the … innovations on growth and inequality diminish as institutions increase in quality, and the effects of institutions can be … influenced by level of innovations. This indicates that while institutions and innovations can be inequality-inducing, their …

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