Income inequality and growth - Does the relationship vary with the income level?

Economics Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 349-355

  Bleaney, Michael ^a   Nishiyama, Akira ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Growth; Inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 3342968636     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2004.03.004     Document Type: Article

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