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Growth, Inequality and Poverty Relationships

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dc.creator Heshmati, Almas
dc.date 2004
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:11:24Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:11:24Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20607
dc.identifier ppn:474215709
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20607
dc.description This paper examines the causal relationship between inequality and a number of macroeconomic variables frequently found in the inequality and growth literature. These include growth, openness, wages, and liberalisation. We review the existing cross-country empirical evidence on the effects of inequality on growth and the extent to which the poorest in society benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of literature mainly empirical examples from 1990s are taken. In addition we test the conditional and unconditional relationship between inequality and growth in the post World War II period using WIDER inequality database. Regression results suggest that income inequality is declining over time. Inequality is also declining in growth of income. There is a significant regional heterogeneity in the levels and development over time. The Kuznets hypothesis represents a global U-shape relationship between inequality and growth.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 1338
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject F14
dc.subject D63
dc.subject C23
dc.subject O57
dc.subject O40
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject growth
dc.subject openness
dc.subject income inequality
dc.subject wage inequality
dc.subject poverty
dc.subject indices
dc.subject Einkommensverteilung
dc.subject Wirtschaftswachstum
dc.subject Armut
dc.subject Kuznets Kurve
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Welt
dc.title Growth, Inequality and Poverty Relationships
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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