The Chilean development story of the last two to three decades is a mix of successes in the macro, growth, poverty and … trade fronts but also of failure in reducing chronic inequality of income and wealth. In addition, the current growth … development model include urban insecurity and rising crime, pollution, pressure on natural resources, congestion and social …

also found that the higher is income inequality within a country the more limited is the impact of growth on reducing … relationships between productivity growth, poverty and inequality. The present study uses several sources of international data on … countries with relatively low income inequality. Furthermore, productivity growth is found to account for changes in poverty …

defined in the development economics literature. Since the early 1990s, the focus has been primarily on pro-poor growth, with …Inclusive growth is widely embraced as the central economic goal for developing countries, but the concept is not well … the “poor” being people living on less than $1 day, or in some regions $2 day. The idea of pro-poor growth emerged in the …

This paper examines growth successes and failures across countries and notes the latter’s perplexing predominance among … investigation that brings forth evidence on the importance of natural resource endowment type on growth or, more appropriately, lack … growth than a resource endowment that is agricultural. The robustness of this result is tested across a number of growth …

This paper argues against a natural resource curse for human development. We find evidence that changes in human … development from 1970 to 2005, proxied by changes in the Human Development Index, are positively and significantly correlated with … resources do not adversely affect growth, we find strong evidence that natural resources have a positive effect on human …