INCOME INEQUALITY, SAVING LEVEL AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN UAE

Economic Growth and Income Inequality

The central theme of this paper is the character and causes of long-term changes in the personal distribution of income. Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth? What factors determine the secular level and trends of income inequalities? These are broad questions in a field of study that has been plagued by looseness in def...

Corruption, economic growth, and income inequality in Africa

This paper uses panel data from African countries and a dynamic panel estimator to investigate the effects of corruption on economic growth and income distribution. I find that corruption decreases economic growthdirectly and indirectly through decreased investment in physical capital. A unit increase in corruption reduces the growth rates of GDP and per capita income by between 0.75 and 0.9 pe...

The Relationship between Globalization, Economic Growth and Income Inequality

This study investigates the relationship between globalization and income inequality by developing a new globalization index based on economic growth. In addition two other indices of globalization, non-parametric Kearney and parametric principal component analysis are used as benchmarks to compare the results. The proposed new index is decomposed into four sub components. The index is also est...

The Effect of Income Inequality on Economic Growth in China

The analysis that follows tests the regression model of Income Inequality by examining the relation among Gini coefficient, GDP growth rate, saving rate and so on within the same country. The purpose of this study is to test out the relation between income inequality and economic growth rate, and the result suggests that income inequality has a negative impact on economic growth rate in the cas...

Income Inequality and Economic Growth: Evidence from the American Data.prf