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“Tracking positive and negative effects of inequality on long-run growth”

Castells-Quintana, David; Royuela, Vicente - Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada (IREA), … - 2014

Despite extensive research, there is still controversy on the effects of income inequality on economic growth. The … different forms of inequality. However, empirical studies have generally not distinguished between these channels, nor have … their analyses included a consideration of the two forms of inequality and their separate effects on growth. In this paper …

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Interrelation between growth and inequality

Kang, Jong Woo - 2015

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 …

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Another look at foreign aid

Ranis, Gustav - 2013

The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of 'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co-operation playing an increasingly important role. Amidst these...

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Lights, camera...income!: Estimating poverty using national accounts, survey means, and lights

Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2014

In this paper, we try to understand whether measures of GDP per capita taken from the national accounts or measures of mean income or consumption derived from household surveys better proxy for true income per capita. We propose a data-driven method to assess the relative quality of GDP per...

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