Government corruption is more prevalent in poor countries than in rich countries. This paper uses cross …-industry heterogeneity in growth rates within Vietnam to test empirically whether growth leads to lower corruption. We find that it does. We … results suggest that as poor countries grow, corruption could subside …

The empirical literature on the relationship between inequality and growth offers a contradictory assessment …-based methods are prone to reflect the mostly positive shortor medium-run implications of inequality while the level … overall impact of inequality in the long run. …

% (0.19 years); and that selection for survival decreased within-region inequality in famine stricken regions. …

the top of that distribution. It is shown that the economy switches from a Victorian to an SATC equilibrium as inequality …

on perceived corruption would be made public in the national media. Using data from a tailored household survey, we …

or societal laws benefiting religious citizens. Rising income inequality can, however, lead some of the rich to form a …

Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population …

Because of their more limited inequality and more comprehensive social welfare systems, many perceive average welfare … entrepreneurs (thus greater inequality) increases entrepreneurial e¤ort and hence a country’s contribution to the world technology … “cutthroat”capitalism that generates greater inequality and more innovation and will become the technology leaders, while others …

countries. We construct measures of ethnic inequality combining ethnolinguistic maps on the spatial distribution of groups with … satellite images of light density at night. Ethnic inequality is strongly inversely related to per capita income; this pattern … holds when we condition on the overall degree of spatial inequality -that is also associated with underdevelopment. We …