increases and law and order improves, financial development becomes more effective in reducing inequality. …

growth opportunities. Also,higher accountability and lower income inequality are associated with more ef-fective legal …

In this paper, the modulating effect of income inequality in the finance-growth nexus using data from 29 sub …-Saharan African (SSA) countries is examined. The study examines i) whether financial development still spurs economic growth in the … studied countries, and ii) whether income inequality modulates the effect of financial development on economic growth. Three …

effects (lower GDP growth and lower income inequality); and welfare effects (lower dispersion of consumption across …This paper analyzes the effects of personal income tax progressivity on long-run economic growth, income inequality and … social welfare. The quantitative implications of income tax progressivity increments are illustrated for the US economy under …

In this paper, we apply the first-order dominance (FOD) approach to assessing multidimensional welfare to analyse … multidimensional poverty in Zambia in 1996, 2006, and 2010. In addition to evaluating welfare across time and space, we extend the … methodology to evaluate welfare by rural agricultural strata and urban housing cost areas. This modification allows a more …