crucial to ensure more equity and social stability. -- growth ; inequality ; poverty ; East Asia and the Middle East … inequality and widening gaps between rich and poor, and urban and rural. It is therefore it is important to examine the … interrelationships between inequality and economic growth. This paper develops a simple model to establish that the change in income …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se …

Our goal is to examine the income inequality and welfare effects of the direct distribution of resource rents and … tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative … rents-induced inequality. …

In view of rising inequality in fast growing Asian developing countries, it is important to study the relationship … between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can … bear a complex and non-linear relationship if policy makers try to impact on one (say, inequality) by influencing the other …

heterogeneity. When altruism heterogeneity is low, income inequality follows an inverse U-shaped pattern relative to the level of … altruism, which is consistent with the cross-country Kuznets curve. When altruism heterogeneity is high, income inequality … linking economic growth and income inequality. …

inequality in the US and the entire rise in Denmark. Cardiovascular mortality declines favored the poor, but differences in … lifestyle-related survivability led inequality to rise. …

What sparked humanity’s leap from stagnation to prosperity? What lies at the core of inequality among nations? Unified … of change that have governed the journey of humanity, driven the growth process, and shaped inequality across the globe … stagnation; and (ii) The Mystery of Inequality—the roots of the vast inequality in the wealth of nations. The theory suggests …

all variables, thus makes several explicit and novel predictions. This includes how income and inequality depend on …

and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule …

We analyze inequality and mobility across generations in a dynastic economy. Nurture, in terms of bequests and the … nature affect mobility and the transmission of income inequality across generations, thus complementing the vast empirical …