Inequality and Unsustainable Growth : Two Sides of the Same Coin? »
Journal Issue
Volume/Issue: 2011/8
Series: Staff Discussion Notes
Author(s): Jonathan Ostry , and Andrew Berg
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 08 April 2011
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781463926564.006
ISBN: 9781463926564
Keywords: Cross country analysis, Developed countries, Economic growth, Emerging markets, Income distribution, Poverty reduction, sustainable growth, per capita income, external debt, external shocks
This note raises the IMF’s profile on a number of issues related to inequality, unemployment, governance, etc. It builds on earlier empirical work that examined correlations between growth downbreaks/duratio...