Economic Growth and Equality of Opportunity

Economic Growth and Equality of Opportunity

In this paper, we argue that a better understanding of the relationship between inequality and economic growth can be obtained by shifting the analysis from the space of final achievements to the space of opportunities. To this end, we introduce a formal framework based on the concept of the Opportu...

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Main Authors: Peragine, Vito, Palmisano, Flaviana, Brunori, Paolo
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2015
Subjects:
cumulative distribution
developing countries
development economics
distributional effect
distributional impact
economic activity
economic development
Economic Growth
Gini index
growth episode
growth process
growth rate
income growth
income inequality
income poverty
labor market
per capita income
poverty reduction
public policies
standard tool
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23540

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