-gravity trade has no significant effect on income inequality in countries that are world leaders in education …

faced and their business environment. The business environment includes physical infrastructure, the availability of an …

quantity of education. The new measure has a strong link to productivity with the potential for productivity gains being much … education policy (pre-primary education) on human capital and productivity to demonstrate the usefulness of the new measure for …

through damage to infrastructure. These two channels call for different policy interventions, focusing on the different stages …

endowments and productivity, relative factor costs emerge as a source of real-income variation across countries. These are shaped … by bilateral trade determinants (which underpin the patterns of “international value-added linkages”) and the global … back out the relative factor costs of 40 major economies in a theory-consistent manner. This reduces the variation in …

growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank … and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule … of law, transparency as measured by the corruption perceptions index from Transparency International, trust as measured …

We study how income inequality affects the social value of a dynamic public good, such as natural capital. Our theory … problem of major relevance for the accounting of public natural capital as required by international treaties is to transfer … values between study and policy contexts, or to up-scale values from study sites to the national scale. Our theory provides …