Empirics for Growth and Distribution : Stratification, Polarization, and Convergence Clubs

This paper studies cross-country patterns of economic growth from the viewpoint of income distribution dynamics. Such a perspective raises new empirical and theoretical issues in growth analysis: the profound empirical regularity is an "emerging twin peaks" in the cross-sectional distribution, not simple patterns of convergence or divergence. The theoretical problems raised concern for interaction patterns among sub-groups of economies, not only problems of a single economy's accumulating factor inputs and technology growth

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Year of publication:	1997
Authors:	Quah, Danny
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Welt \| World \| Wirtschaftliche Konvergenz \| Economic convergence \| Einkommensverteilung \| Income distribution \| Theorie \| Theory \| Wirtschaftswachstum \| Economic growth
Description of contents:	Abstract [papers.ssrn.com]