Using a panel fixed effects model for a sample of 121 countries covering 1975–2005, we
examine how financial development, financial liberalization and banking crises are related …

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic
inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global …

Since the 1980s, globalization has reduced between-country inequality and increased
within-country inequality in most countries. There has been a debate about whether global …

The study investigates the nexus between energy poverty and income inequality from
multiple perspectives by drawing on a rich set of global data and applying a novel set of …

This study examines the joint effects of ICT diffusion (composed of access, usage and skills),
and foreign direct investment (FDI) on inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The …

Globalisation is blamed for many socioeconomic shortcomings. I discuss the consequences
of globalisation by surveying the empirical globalisation literature. My focus is on the KOF …

The Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) index was first produced by Gwartney, Block,
and Lawson (Economic Freedom of the World: 1975–1995; 1996) and has been updated …

This paper examines the relationship between economic complexity and income inequality.
Using panel data on eighty-eight countries from 2002 to 2017 and two estimation methods …

We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample
includes 139 countries over the period 1970–2014. We employ predicted openness as …

This study examines both the direct and moderating effects of digitalization on income
inequality by using the panel data of Group of Twenty countries for 2002–2018. We find that …