inequality in determining the quality of growth-promoting institutions like rule of law. Democracy is associated with …Using cross-country data, we find evidence for a significant negative interaction effect between democracy and … institutions of higher quality when inequality is lower. …

inequality and the emergence and stability of democratic political systems are connected. While early research in this domain has … generally does not suggest any conclusive results concerning economic inequality and the emergence of democracies, the survey … inequality, and it outlines the conditions for this to occur. However, additional research especially on some of the more …

in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per … growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank … and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule …

varying degrees. The regime has diverted from the much needed democracy to a patrimonial regime blended in modern state …. Neopatrimonialism is directly linked to corruption and damage the long term culture of democracy. The study showed the dominance of …

inequality of income and expenditure over that period. The paper calculates Lorenz and Generalised Lorenz curves and also the … Growth Incidence Curve of Ravallion and Chen to investigate the extent to which growth was “pro-poor”. The paper also … examines the composition of changes in inequality of income over the period. …

. A series of shocks, especially the fuel and food price crisis of 2008, combined with poor productivity growth in …

Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of … economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …

national, state, and district-level figures for overall, within and between consumption inequality. We find an increase in … inequality in India but only since 2004. We also document an increase in between group (or horizontal) inequality over the entire … period. We then investigate the impact of ethnic fragmentation and public good provision on inequality. We hypothesize that …

has a positive impact on reducing inequality within groups as measured by the Gini index. Based on a sequential prisoner …