This paper describes the dynamics of economic performance for the sub-national Mexican states from 1970 to 2006; the state variables used are the levels and the growth rates of per capita GDP. The authors situate this approach in a conceptual and methodological panorama of the existent literature....

We look at two emerging economies, Brazil and China, and propose an evaluation of their recent development in terms of growth performance and the evolution of income inequality. Our analysis therefore seems to be related to the well-known Kuznets-curve and theory. The latter, however, populates...

En este trabajo se analiza la evolucion de una economia con dos tipos de firmas (innovadoras y no-innovadoras) y dos tipos de trabajadores (altamente calificados y poco calificados), en el que las decisiones de los trabajadores se encuentran definidas por conductas imitativas de comportamiento y...

The empirical evidence on the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is widely recognized and, now, there are rich databases for carry on panel-data type of analyses. However, time series studies for specific countries may be more attractive and yield revealing results. For...