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Growth, Inequality and Poverty Relationships

Heshmati, Almas - 2021

benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of … between inequality and growth in the post World War II period using WIDER inequality database. Regression results suggest that …

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The Poverty of Nations : A Quantitative Exploration

Chari, Varadarajan V.; Kehoe, Patrick J.; McGrattan, … - 2014

We document regularities in the distribution of relative incomes and investment patterns across countries. We develop a quantitative version of the neoclassical growth model with a broad measure of capital in which investment decisions are affected by distortions. These distortions follow a...

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A non-parametric measure of poverty elasticity

Chambers, Dustin; Dhongde, Shatakshee - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 57 (2011) 4, pp. 683-703

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The growth elasticity of poverty reduction : explaining heterogeneity across countries and time periods

Bourguignon, François - In: Inequality and growth : theory and policy implications, (pp. 3-26). 2003

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Aid and growth : asymmetric effects?

Dörr, Leo - 2024 - Version: March 2024

This paper provides new empirical findings on the aid-growth relation. We find evidence for considerable asymmetry in the aid-growth relation; i.e., aid cuts have a large negative impact on economic activity, while increasing aid may be ineffective in promoting growth. Development aid thus...

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Are Financial Development and Financial Stability Complements or Substitutes in Poverty Reduction?

Singh, Sunny; Jha, Chandan Kumar - 2023

This paper studies the association between financial development, financial stability, and poverty for a sample of 109 … development, and only a few recent studies have looked at the effects of financial stability on poverty. However, none of the … existing studies has looked at the interaction effect of the two on poverty. Our contribution to this literature is manifold …

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Socio-economic development in South Asia : the past 50 years

Osmani, Siddiqur Rahman - 2018

much better prospect than many other parts of the Third World; the prospects soon dimmed, however, as South Asia crawled …

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The political U : new evidence on democracy and income

Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Frigerio, Marco - 2022

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960-2018, we show that the causal relationship between political and economic development is U-shaped: "intermediate" political regimes significantly lead to inferior economic...

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Inequality Affects Long-Run Growth : Cross-Industry, Cross-Country Evidence

Gutierrez-Romero, Roxana - 2020

The theoretical literature has predicted that inequality affects long-run growth by reducing human and physical capital, particularly in the presence of imperfect credit markets and other contractual frictions. We test these four mechanisms using measures of inequality at the country-level,...

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Income Distribution : Effects on Growth and Development

Birdsall, Nancy - 2007

I review the literature on the effects of inequality on growth and development in the developing world. Two stylized … a negative association emerges. Between 15 and 40 percent of the developing world's population lives in countries with …

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