This paper shows how differences in aggregate human development outcomes over time and space can be additively decomposed into a pure economic-growth component, a component attributed to differences in the distribution of income, and components attributed to quot;non-incomequot; factors and...

While liberalizing key factor markets is a crucial step in the transition from a socialist control-economy to a market economy, the process can be stalled by imperfect information, high transaction costs, and covert resistance from entrenched interests. Ravallion and van de Walle study...

In the decollectivization of agriculture in Vietnam, local allocation of land use rights reduced overall inequality - thanks to initial conditions at the time of reform and actions by the center to curtail the power of local elites. The decollectivization of agriculture in Vietnam was a crucial...