Economic Growth and equality of opportunity (English)

The paper proposes an approach to understand the relationship between inequality and economic growth obtained by shifting the analysis from the space of final achievements to the space of opportunities. To this end, it introduces a formal framework based on the concept of the Opportunity Growth Incidence Curve. This framework can be used to evaluate the income dynamics of specific groups of the population and to infer the role of growth in the evolution...

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Brunori, Paolo;

Palmisano,Flaviana;

Peragine,Vito;
Document Date
2013/09/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS6599
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Italy, Brazil,
Region
Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and Caribbean,
Disclosure Date
2013/09/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Economic Growth and equality of opportunity
Keywords
per capita income growth

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Brunori, Paolo; Palmisano,Flaviana; Peragine,Vito.

Economic Growth and equality of opportunity (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 6599 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/361701468039835690

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