outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased …

dynamic measure permits us to focus on inequality as well as distinguish between countries where per capita income growth was …

question. This paper analyzes the effects of fiscal policies on income inequality in a panel of advanced and emerging market … fiscal consolidations are likely to raise inequality through various channels including their effects on unemployment …. Spending-based consolidations tend to worsen inequality more significantly, relative to tax-based consolidations. The …

excessive flexibility, resulting in suboptimal growth or even self-sustaining technology-inequality traps. Fourth, I examine how … configurations of technology, inequality and redistributive policy are feasible in the long run, when all three are endogenous. I … show in particular how the diffusion of technology leads to the “exporting” of inequality across borders; and how this, in …

This paper explores theoretical linkages between poverty traps, economic inequality and delinquency in a perfect … that the existence of a poverty trap under conditions of sufficient initial economic inequality and costly indivisible … inequality. ***** <p>Este artículo explora la conexión teórica entre trampas de pobreza, desigualdad económica y delincuencia en …

Inequality in access to education is known to be a key driver of income inequality in developing countries. Viet Nam, a …

Against the background of inconclusive evidence about the inequality–growth relation, this paper suggests that the … level of inequality increases via the human capital channel with credit market imperfections and that this increasing … inequality negatively affects economic growth. We expand the model presented by Galor and Zeira (1993) to represent the fact that …

high levels of income inequality continuously debated. When solutions are discussed, one of the more frequently recited … could in fact have exacerbated inequality, despite society having undertaken national educational expansion. The data … high income households, the curative effects of educational expansion on income inequality appear to be paradoxical …

We study the interactions and dynamics of human capital, growth and inequality by explicitly embedding networks into a … differences across households and leads to long run equality, while below the threshold, inequality is high and persists more …