Les dépenses sociales publiques s’élèvent à 25 pour cent du PIB, voire plus dans certains pays. Des dépenses d’une telle ampleur ont très vraisemblablement quelque effet sur la croissance, mais les avis divergent quant au sens dans lequel s’exerce cet effet. A partir de nouvelles...

Public social expenditure accounts for 25 per cent of GDP, or even more in some countries. That expenditure on this scale has some effect on growth seems very likely, but the direction of the effect is disputed by different schools of thought. Using new data sources and panel data econometric...

<OL><LI>Economic growth is, ultimately, the result of the myriad of transactions which take place in a market economy. Similarly, the distribution of income depends on who has ownership of factors of production, how much they can sell them for, and whether the resultant income is redistributed or not....</li></ol>

This paper attempts to clarify what trade-offs might exist between equity and growth. It is found that (i) there is not enough evidence to state definitively that inequality is either good or bad for growth, although the results cannot be taken so confidently as to rule out completely any...