This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a …-level investment is also negatively related to several measures of poverty. Overall, our results indicate that firm-level capital … reducing inequality and poverty. Our results may also be beneficial to policy makers as they consider a variety of regulatory …

Despite extensive research, the estimates of changes in employment are heter-ogeneous in different conditions of … employment elasticity compared to its values in economies with a stable development trend. Based on this, we formulate the …

investment (FDI) on cross-country differences in productivity. We construct a spatial Gini coefficient of labor productivity … across countries, and weighted indices of FDI and gross domestic investment (GDI). We then examine their time series … properties to explore the relations of FDI and GDI with productivity. Although we find little evidence of FDI flows - which have …

integration and their impact on trade, growth and poverty in the world's two dominant developing countries in emerging markets …

. The results of our multivariate time series analysis also suggest that FDI increases productivity differences among low … of trade appears to be important for attracting FDI to middle income countries. Furthermore, a reduction in productivity … differences and a higher FDI growth lead to higher growth of trade in developed countries …