This survey essay reviews close to 200 papers in arguing that in order to achieve
sustainable and inclusive development, foreign aid should not orient developing countries …

As Wall Street rose to dominate the US economy, income and pay inequalities in America
came to dance to the tune of the credit cycle. As the reach of financial markets extended …

This paper examines the relationship between economic complexity and income inequality.
Using panel data on eighty-eight countries from 2002 to 2017 and two estimation methods …

This article examines the influence of tourism on income inequality on a global sample. Our
analysis uses various econometric techniques for panel data including 97 countries over the …

Recent studies appear to show that democracy has no robust association with economic
growth. Yet all such work assumes that the causal effect of democracy can be measured by …

This study is probably the first attempt to examine the nonlinear relationship between export
diversification and income inequality. It uses a balanced panel of 90 countries over the 2002 …

The effects of inequality and financial globalization on democratization are central issues in
political science. The relationships among economic inequality, capital mobility, and …

The cross-country correlation between social trust and income equality is well documented,
but few studies examine the direction of causality. We show theoretically that by facilitating …

Using several cross‐sectional and panel data methodologies, this paper provides evidence
of the existence of an inverted U‐shaped relationship between international remittances and …

How does regime type affect the poor? Are certain types of regimes better at translating
economic growth into consumption for the world's least privileged citizens? We propose an …