This paper aims to explore the determinants of household income and expenditure growth, and assess whether the poor are …

partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U … requires more resources, which lowers pre-tax and post-tax income inequality as well as growth. Using consistently defined … inequality in rich countries. It is argued that using some unadjusted inequality measures in growth regressions may yield …

In this paper, we review the role of the political economy in inclusive growth. We find that political economy forces … document growing support for a rethink of the social contract to make growth more inclusive and discuss some of its broad …

An influential paper by Berg et al., 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence', uses the SWIID data to … examine the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth in both developing and developed countries. It finds that while … inequality is harmful for growth, redistribution does not hamper growth. This comment demonstrates that the redistribution and …

relative to earlier literature. In particular, we use the latest version of the UNU-WIDER' Income Inequality Database to have … the best available estimates of both pre- and post-redistribution inequality for the largest set of countries and periods … redistribution and the impacts of redistribution on growth can be misleading. …