system as a means of poverty alleviation, pointing to the importance of economic growth with job creation for sustaining the …

Contemporary American interest in using antitrust law to address wealth inequality is a symptom of American political … dysfunction rather than a reflection of any intellectual advance regarding the sources of inequality. Indeed, both the original … inequality, agree that inequality’s source is scarcity, rather than monopoly, and so will persist even in perfectly competitive …

This paper contributes to the debate over the relationship between inequality and growth by proposing that the … inequality exert a positive correlation with economic growth while high levels have a negative one. Additionally, and more … importantly, it is demonstrated the existence of an optimal rate of inequality (ORI) that maximizes growth rates and releases the …

This paper contributes to the debate over the relationship between inequality and growth by proposing that the … inequality exert a positive correlation with economic growth while high levels have a negative one. Additionally, and more … importantly, it is demonstrated the existence of an optimal rate of inequality (ORI) that maximizes growth rates and releases the …

This paper contributes to the debate over the relationship between inequality and inclusive growth by testing the … proposition of a kinked-non linear relationship between income inequality and economic growth in a country specific context. The … existence of an optimal rate of inequality (ORI) that maximizes growth rates and releases the economy from any distortion …

for the years 1996 to 2004. We study the relationship between growth, inequality and poverty by following the Poverty … results show that growth in Colombia has generally been anti-poor, a consequence of high inequality in the urban sector and of …This paper analyzes the relationship between growth, poverty and income distribution using household data for Colombia …

In recent years, an ample literature has emerged on the evolution of global inequality during the last two decades. A … few stylized facts emerge. If one weights countries by their population, then inequality across countries has declined … increasing inequality. Which view is the correct one? In this paper, we use the 2004 version of the World Bank’s World …

We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, in which trust increases efficiency and thus allows … higher growth of the experimental economy in the future. We find that trust is initially high in a treatment starting with …