• DOI:10.1023/A:1009850119329
Corpus ID: 2089406

Inequality and Growth in a Panel of Countries

@article{Barro2000InequalityAG,
  title={Inequality and Growth in a Panel of Countries},
  author={R. Barro},
  journal={Journal of Economic Growth},
  year={2000},
  volume={5},
  pages={5-32}
}

• R. Barro
• Published 2000
• Economics
• Journal of Economic Growth

Evidence from a broad panel of countries shows little overall relation between income inequality and rates of growth and investment. For growth, higher inequality tends to retard growth in poor countries and encourage growth in richer places. The Kuznets curve—whereby inequality first increases and later decreases during the process of economic development—emerges as a clear empirical regularity. However, this relation does not explain the bulk of variations in inequality across countries or… Expand