01771cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF003400 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451860474 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Iradian, Garbis. Inequality, Poverty, and Growth : Cross-Country Evidence / Garbis Iradian. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005. 1 online resource (39 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper examines the empirical relationship between inequality and growth, and analyzes the impacts of growth, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that reduces measurement error and ensures comparability across countries and over time. The empirical results in this paper challenge the belief that income inequality has a negative effect on growth and confirm the validity of the Kuznets curve. Credit market imperfections in low- and medium-income countries are identified as the likely reason for the positive link between inequality and growth over the short-to-medium term. In the long term, inequality may have an adverse impact on growth. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/028 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2005/028/001.2005.issue-028-en.xml IMF e-Library