Documents & Reports
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Does Race and Gender Inequality Impact Income Growth ? (English)
Using Integrated Public Use Microdata Series–United States micro-census data from 1960 to 2010, this paper examines whether racial and gender income disparities beget inequality by differentially impacting...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9865 Document Date: November 30, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Marrero,Gustavo Alberto,Rodríguez,Juan Gabriel,Van Der Weide,Roy
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Growth, Inequality, and Poverty : A Robust Relationship? (English)
An extensive literature on poverty traps suggests that high levels of poverty deter growth. However, a seemingly basic implication of the underlying theoretical models, namely that countries suffering...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8578 Document Date: September 6, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Marrero,Gustavo Alberto,Serven,Luis
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Unequal opportunity, unequal growth (English)
This paper argues that inequality can be both good and bad for growth, depending on what inequality and whose growth. Unequal societies may be holding back one segment of the population while helping another...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7853 Document Date: October 11, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Marrero,Gustavo Alberto,Rodriguez,Juan Gabriel,Van Der Weide,Roy
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Measuring the impact of debt-financed public investment (English)
While debt-financed productive public investment raises a country’s debt ratios in the short run, it can also generate higher growth, revenues, and exports, leading over time to lower debt ratios. This...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6766 Document Date: February 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cavalcanti,Carlos B.,Le,Tuan Minh,Marrero,Gustavo Alberto