The basic objective of the paper is to focus on the role of economic freedom, and inequality in education and land assets as determinants of growth, inequality, poverty and malnutrition. The econometric results confirm that for the countries studied, the aggregate measure of economic freedom...

Addressing inequality remains important from a policy perspective. The study empirically examines the following two objectives for five SAARC nations: first, the impact of economic development on income inequality; second, the impact of inequality on redistribution. Using datasets from SWIID and...

Recent experience of growth in developing countries is associated with accentuation in income inequalities in nations such as India, China and Bangladesh (Wade, 2004). However, an analysis of the factors that underlie accentuation of inequalities has not received sufficient attention. Therefore,...