Although it is often argued that wealth inequality matters more for economic growth than income inequality, this … timeframe. Leveraging hitherto unexploited wealth inequality data from the World Inequality Database, covering a panel of 165 … at the top of the distribution and economic growth. A one standard deviation increase in wealth inequality within …

on economic activity (night lights and GDP), together with the lack of significant in uence on patterns of inequality …

In this paper we compute inequality measures over the distribution of a subjective well-being variable constructed from … inequality in subjective well-being may be a better proxy for the degree of unfairness in a society than income inequality. We … find evidence that inequality in subjective well-being has an inverse-U relationship with per capita GDP, but it is …

Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and … global inequality by leading inequality scholars, aligning these to comprehensive reviews of inequality trends in five of the … world’s largest developing countries - Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa. Each is a persistently high or newly …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global …. China's rapid economic growth is by far the most important factor underlying almost all of them, notwithstanding sharply …

-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …