turns out not to be a fact at all. Growth's effects on inequality can go either way and are contingent on several other … inequality. Possibly measurement errors confound the true relationship, but they think it more likely that the relationship … process will tend to be lower, the higher the extent of initial inequality. A smaller share of total income must imply a …

The authors investigate recent rends in poverty, and inequality in China, decomposing data on poverty reduction to see … attributable to Asia's economic crisis. Economic growth contributed significantly to poverty reduction, but rising inequality … problem if it is to succeed in attacking poverty, and inequality. …

exclusion. This may then lead to a feedback mechanism whereby inequality in the incidence of public spending on education breeds … higher income inequality, thus generating multiple equilibria: with social exclusion and high inequality; and with social … inclusion and relatively low inequality. The author also shows that the latter equilibrium leads to higher long-run growth than …