Trends in Globalization’ website (http://ablog.typepad.com/), the paper analyzes growth in four types of country typified by … the EU, the USA, India, and China. The fastest growth has been registered in China, which has followed a policy of … expansionary money with strong banking controls, combined with an investment-led stimulus. Strong growth has also however been …

This paper examines inequality patterns in the 1990s in Poland, Russia and Hungary. We consider three different … definitions of income and analyse the contributions to inequality of their main components using LIS micro data. Inequality is … Shorrocks' axiomatic approach and the Theil-based decomposition). The role of transfers and taxes in mitigating total inequality …

This paper explores theoretical linkages between poverty traps, economic inequality and delinquency in a two sector … incentives interact. We find that the existence of a poverty trap under high economic inequality and costly indivisible human … increase in wealth inequality. We also find that subsidies for human capital investments can have an ambiguous effect on …

Following Galor and Zeira (1993), we study the effect of the world interest rate on inequality and growth for the … Galor and Zeira model: 1) a reduction of the world interest rates increases inequality in rich countries and decreases … inequality in poor countries; 2) inequality has a negative (and significant) effect on hu- man capital accumulation in rich …

economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …

consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of … economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …