Polarization, politics, and property rights
Subtitle: links between inequality and growth
By: Philip Keefer, Stephen Knack.
Contributors: Knack, Stephen F.; World Bank. Development Research Group. Regulation and Competition Policy.
Series: Policy research working paper ;; 2418; Policy research working papers (Online) ;; 2418.
Publisher: World Bank, Development Research Group, Regulation and Competition Policy
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Income distribution.; Right of property.; Equality.
Description: One strand of research argues that polarized societies find it difficult to reach political consensus on appropriate responses to crises. Another strand focuses on redistribution, asking whether income inequality stifles growth by increasing political incentives to redistribute. Which is right?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 29-32).
Title from title screen as viewed on Oct. 15, 2002.
"August 2000"--Cover.
Also available in print.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.