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light on the dynamic causality relationship and impact channel between economic growth and inequality - using vector error … inequality, renewed attention should be paid to curbing inequality. Those economies experiencing inclusive growth can further … promote growth with less risk of sacrificing equity. This also provides useful implications for development interventions …
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, as we explain below. Finally, the relationship between remittances and inequality appears to be non …-monotonic: remittances seem to decrease economic inequality in communities with a long migration tradition but to increase inequality within …
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The new growth literature, using both endogenous growth and neoclassical models, has generated strong claims for the effect of national policies on economic growth. Empirical work on policies and growth has tended to confirm these claims. This paper casts doubt on this claim for strong effects...
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The hallmark of the recent development and growth literature is a quest to identify institutions that explain a …
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This paper confirms recent evidence of a positive impact of aid on growth and widens the scope of evaluation to a range of outcomes including proximate sources of growth (e.g., physical and human capital), indicators of social welfare (e.g., poverty and infant mortality), and measures of...
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We analyse the interdependence between green attitude and equilibrium development of environmental quality in an …
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with development. We calibrate our model using an empirical measure of country-level social ties and are able to … additional dimensions of cross-country data: (i) increasing income inequality, but converging growth rates; (ii) an association … between weak social ties and development; and (iii) an association between number of social ties and size of the transaction …
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This paper explores empirically the relation between special-interest groups and economic growth. Our analysis exploits new data on the number of groups observed across countries and time, in order to mitigate the identification problems associated with earlier studies. Also in contrast to...
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How do the number of trade partners and the concentration of trade among partners affect the economic growth of a country? We refer to these characteristics as the structure of trade, and explore this question empirically in this study. We find that the structure of trade, independently of the...
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