financial development reduces income inequality, the effects on hunger are not so robust. Although microfinance has considerable …

and long-term linkages among growth in agricultural and non-agricultural sectors, inequality and poverty. Agricultural … growth is found to be the most important factor in reducing inequality and poverty. The role of agricultural growth in … reducing inequality is undermined by ethnic fractionalisation which tends to make inequality more persistent. Our analysis …

the minority groups. Secondly, the disparity of living standards has been widening. In particular, inequality in both the … is estimated to have been greater if inequality remained constant. It is noted that the impacts of economic growth vary … inequality that the main driver of inequality is not identical among different ethnic groups. Given the diversity across ethnic …