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Levine, Ross - 2021

Finance and growth emerged as a distinct field of economics during the last three decades as economists integrated the fields of finance and economic growth and then explored the ramifications of the functioning of financial systems on economic growth, income distribution, and poverty. In this...

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What is behind Latin America’s declining income inequality?

Tsounta, Evridiki; Osueke, Anayochukwu I. - 2014

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Growing (un)equal : fiscal policy and income inequality in China and BRIC+

Cevik, Serhan; Correa-Caro, Carolina - 2015

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What is Behind Latin America’s Declining Income Inequality?

Tsounta, Evridiki - 2014

emerging and developed regions. However, Latin America remains the most unequal region in the world. This study documents the … panel econometric analysis for a large group of emerging and developing countries, we find that the Kuznets curve holds …

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Growing (Un)equal : Fiscal Policy and Income Inequality in China and BRIC+

Cevik, Serhan - 2015

This paper investigates the empirical characteristics of income inequality in China and a panel of BRIC+ countries over …-an inverted Ushaped relationship between income inequality and economic development-in China and the panel of BRIC+ countries. In … redistributive effect of fiscal policy in China appears to be stronger than what we identify in the BRIC+ panel, it is not large …

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Inflation anchoring and growth : evidence from sectoral data

Choi, Sangyup; Furceri, Davide; Loungani, Prakash - 2018

(Bernanke 2007, Plosser 2007). We test this claim using panel data on sectoral growth for 22 manufacturing industries for 36 …

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Patterns in IMF growth forecast revisions : a panel study at multiple horizons

Hadzi-Vaskov, Metodij; Ricci, Luca Antonio; Werner, … - 2021

This paper investigates the performance of the IMF WEO growth forecast revisions across different horizons and country groups. We find that: (i) growth revisions in horizons closer to the actual are generally larger, more volatile, and more negative; (ii) on average, growth revisions are in the...

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Can a government enhance long-run growth by changing the composition of public expenditure?

Acosta-Ormaechea, Santiago; Morozumi, Atsuyoshi - 2013

-income countries). Using dynamic panel GMM estimators, we find that a reallocation involving a rise in education spending has a …

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Financial inclusion : what have we learned so far? : what do we have to learn?

Barajas, Adolfo; Beck, Thorsten; Belhaj, Mohamed; Ben … - 2020

The past two decades have seen a rapid increase in interest in financial inclusion, both from policymakers and researchers. This paper surveys the main findings from the literature, documenting the trends over time and gaps that have arisen across regions, income levels, and gender, among...

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Measuring income inequality and implications for economic transmission channels

Blotevogel, Robert; Imamoglu, Eslem; Moriyama, Kenji; … - 2020

We study the channels that theoretically transmit the effects of inequality to economic growth, unlike much of the existing literature that focuses on the direct linkage. The role of inequality in these transmission channels is difficult to pin down and varies with the particular inequality...

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