Akira Nishiyama

TL;DR: This article investigated whether income inequality affects subsequent growth in a cross-country sample for 1965-90, using the models of Barro (1997), Bleaney and Nishiyama (2002) and Sachs and Warner (1997) with negative results.

TL;DR: This article conducted non-nested tests between the models of Barro (1997), Easterly and Levine (1997) and Sachs and Warner (1998) and identified a model that includes most (but not all) of the regressors in the candidate models and is robust to the inclusion of regional dummies.

TL;DR: For three different specifications of a cross-country growth model, the coefficient of initial income inequality is remarkably similar for high and low-income countries, contrary to some recent suggestions in the literature, but varies markedly across models.

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that convergence in inequality has been significantly slower amongst developing countries than in developed countries, especially in the developed world, and that the convergence in inequalities has been slower in developing countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effects of GDP per capita on infant mortality using panel data from 83 developing countries over a period of 40 years and found that positive economic growth may have weak, mixed effects on a reduction in infant mortality, but negative economic growth has a strong, adverse impact.