economic development. The empirical analysis performed in the thesis, and summarised here, focuses on two mayor world trends in … modern economic development, namely increasing agglomeration and rising inequalities within countries. In particular, the …

light on the dynamic causality relationship and impact channel between economic growth and inequality - using vector error … inequality, renewed attention should be paid to curbing inequality. Those economies experiencing inclusive growth can further … promote growth with less risk of sacrificing equity. This also provides useful implications for development interventions …

details of the various phases of development and the role thatgovernment and government monopoly has played in different …

This essay reviews the historical and ongoing role played by trade in sustained high growth and human development … progress, and makes the case that the post-2015 development agenda should include considerations related to trade rules and … argues that trade led economic growth must be prioritised in the post-2015 development agenda. …

neglected issues of development and structural transformation. The purpose of this paper is to make a contribution to this gap … developing country contexts with extre me income inequality and correspondingly polarized patterns of consumption. This argument … is supported by a review of, amongst other, Kalecki's writing on development and a two-sector model building on Razmi et …

been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …

We study the relationship between per-capita income and income inequality with a heterogeneous panel co …-51 years and consider measures for both pre-tax and post-tax income inequality; second, we take into account country …-tax income inequality,but no such relationship for post-tax income inequality. Moreover, we find estimates on the country level …

, as we explain below. Finally, the relationship between remittances and inequality appears to be non …-monotonic: remittances seem to decrease economic inequality in communities with a long migration tradition but to increase inequality within …