This paper provides a comprehensive literature review of the relationship between income
inequality and economic growth. In the theoretical literature, we identified various models in …

There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While
that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities …

Over the past two decades, the West African region has experienced much faster economic
growth than other parts of the world. However, despite this economic upturn, the region has …

Inequality is a major international development challenge. This is so from an ethical
perspective and because greater inequality is perceived to be detrimental to key …

The available evidence suggests that the poor in developing countries typically do share in
the gains from rising aggregate affluence, and in the losses from aggregate contraction. But …

This paper provides a survey and synthesis of econometric tools that have been employed
to study economic growth. While these tools range across a variety of statistical methods …

This paper assesses the current state of evidence on the impact of trade policy reform on
poverty in developing countries. There is little empirical evidence addressing this question …

Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries.
However, little is still known about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross …

Theoretical and empirical studies exploring the effects of income inequality upon growth
reach a disappointing inconclusive result. This paper postulates that one reason for this …

Does the occurrence of a natural disaster such as an earthquake, volcanic eruption,
tsunami, flood, hurricane, epidemic, heat wave, and/or plague increase the risk of violent …