Rising income inequality has become a defining global challenge that hinders the
achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The paper investigates …

The sizeable increase in income inequality experienced in advanced economies and many
parts of the world since the 1990s and the severe consequences of the global economic and …

This study extends the multi‐country, politico‐economic model of fiscal policy to incorporate
wage inequality within each country. In this extended framework, we present conflict over …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of growth in different sectors of the
economy of developing countries on income inequality and analyze how inflation, as a proxy …

This study aims to determine the role of globalization, electronic government, financial
development, concerning the moderation of institutional quality in reducing income …

Purpose This paper aims to re-examine the impact of government expenditure on income
inequality. Existing studies provide mixed results on whether government expenditure …

This paper examines the impact of different instruments of fiscal policy on economic growth
and income inequality. We use an unbalanced panel of 43 upper‐middle and high income …

This paper analyses the relationship between income inequality and economic growth
through fiscal policy. To this end, we present and estimate two systems of structural …

A bias towards running deficits is an entrenched feature of fiscal policy making in most
developed economies. Our paper examines whether this tendency is in any way associated …

Fiscal decentralisation might be partially responsible for rising income inequality by
exacerbating competition between sub-national governments and compromising national …