Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty: A Review

Published By: UNU-WIDER on eSS | Published Date: November, 09 , 2001

This paper reviews recent research dealing with the relationships between economic growth, income distribution, and poverty. This generally fails to find any systematic pattern of change in income distribution during recent decades. Neither does it find any systematic link from fast growth to increasing inequality. The level of initial income inequality is not a robust explanatory factor of growth, but some recent empirical studies have found a negative impact of asset inequality on growth. [Discussion Paper No.2001/129]

Author(s): Arne Bigsten, Jörgen Levin | Posted on: Dec 09, 2010 | Views(799) | Download (667)


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