Inequality is often regarded as a necessary evil that has to be tolerated to allow growth, says the author. The view … that inequality is necessary for the accumulation of wealth, and contains the seeds of eventual increases in everyone …'s income, is evident in trickle down economic theories, where societal acceptance of inequality allows the rich to earn a …

Comparing changes in inequality with initial levels, using new data, the author finds that within-country inequality in … allow for serially independent measurement error in inequality data and for short-run dynamics around longer-term trends … the pattern. The author offers an approach to modeling the determinants of inequality that may be a starting point for …

relative importance of growth and inequality changes for changes in social welfare. In a large panel of industrial and … due to changes in average incomes. In contrast, the changes in inequality observed during this period are on average much …

This paper uses cross-section data for 107 countries to explore the relationship between gender inequality and economic … growth. The paper departs from the literature by using a broad measure of gender inequality that goes well beyond gender … inequality in education, which has been the focus of most studies. Another novelty of the paper lies in exploring heterogeneity …