Productivity and socio-economic progress are inter-connected. Economic growth funds policies that promote socio …-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine. A society with high mobility is one where individual achievements are … influenced less by the individual’s parents and more by her potential. In an application to 54 state-regions in India (1983 …

estimation confirm the effects of inequality of opportunity on economic performance. Specifically, the results of the analysis …

An influential paper by Berg et al., 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence', uses the SWIID data to … examine the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth in both developing and developed countries. It finds that while … inequality is harmful for growth, redistribution does not hamper growth. This comment demonstrates that the redistribution and …

associated with faster economic growth, other kinds, arising from unequal opportunities for investment, might be detrimental to … Surveys, to revisit the question of whether inequality is associated with economic growth and, in particular, to examine … whether inequality of opportunity - driven by circumstances at birth - has a negative effect on subsequent growth. Results are …

addition to being normatively undesirable, it can be related to low potential for growth. In this paper we evaluate inequality …

India over the last quarter-century, from 1983 to 2009-10, employing data available in the quinquennial 'thick' surveys of … literature available on the subject in India. …

outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance, with a focus on …

In this paper we argue that a better understanding of the relationship between inequality and growth can be obtained by … Opportunity Growth Incidence Curve, that can be used to evaluate the income dynamics of specific groups of the population and to … infer the role of growth in the evolution of inequality of opportunity over time. By employng a rank dependent social …

Theoretical and empirical studies exploring the effects of income inequality upon growth reach a disappointing … two types of inequality affect growth through opposite channels, so the relationship between income inequality and growth … relationship between inequality of opportunity and growth, and a positive relationship between inequality of returns to effort and …