Purpose This study aims to determine whether there is an effect of internal and public debt on income inequality in Kenya for the period 1970–2018. Design/methodology/approach The relationship is examined by using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model by Pesaran et al. (2001) and...

This article argues that when a large part of a population has either limited or no access to social and economic resources as a result of government policy in redistributing revenue towards the capital, such concentrated redistribution at the centralised level may become a key factor in...

This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System...