This chapter reviews the empirical research on the relation between defense spending and economic growth. A broad flavor of the approaches adopted by different scholars is provided through a list of selected studies on the topic since 1973 and an outline of the variations over Benoit's original...

Kuznets' hypothesis, which relates income inequality in a country with its level of economic development, is extended to the world system, and it is hypothesized that intercountry (world) income inequality first increases with world economic growth, but starts declining after reaching a turning...

This note adds to the research which questions the recent influential view that recipient country's 'policies' play an important role in the effect of foreign aid on economic growth in developing countries. In the first step, the almost universal practice of imposing the constraint of equality...