In this essay we analyze the relation between long-term growth and institutional development. Relative backwardness has … setting had a long-lasting impact on Latin American development. We criticize Neo-institutionalist writings for being … approaches seem to be exaggerated, proposing artificial breaks in the historical process. Inequality was at a high level by the …

rise in income inequality. Poverty has increased sharply with an estimated 18.5% of the population on incomes below the …

This paper discusses the data limitations associated with the measurement of top incomes and inequality in the Middle … East, with special emphasis to the case of Egypt. It has been noted that high inequality might have contributed to the Arab … spring revolt movement. Some studies have argued however that measured inequality in Middle East countries is not …

scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled labour scarcity in Europe. Thus, it contributed to rising inequality in … overseas countries, like the United States, and falling inequality in most of Europe. Falling unskilled labour scarcity and … in today's world? This paper argues that modern debates about inequality and schooling responses to globalization should …

-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …

comparative development. We also show that ethnic inequality goes in tandem with lower levels development within countries. Using … 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 …

In recent theories of comparative development the role of institutional differences has been crucial. Yet what explains … homogeneous in many ways, they experienced radically different paths of economic (and political) development which is conventional … development are conditional on the form that political competition takes in society. Endowments are not fate. …

1950s. Finally, we turn to the determinants of a broad array of development indicators for the year 1960 and for the 1960 …