Finance and Income Inequality: What Do the Data Tell Us?

By George R. G. Clarke, Lixin Colin Xu, HENG-FU ZOU. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems

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The Role Of Financial Development On Income Inequality In Malaysia (2009, unknown): “Clarke et al. (2006) determine the relationship between finance and income inequality for 83 developed and developing countries between 1960 and 1995.”
Access to Finance (2010, unknown): “" Clarke et al. (2006) and Beck et al. (2007) are among the few papers to investigate the link across countries.”
Financial development and income inequality: a panel data approach (2011, methodology): “We follow the approach of Nikoloski (2012) by using a levels-log specification and also test the approach of Clarke et al. (2003, 2006) with different control variables and OLS.”
Financial Development and Income Inequality: Is There Any Financial Kuznets Curve in Iran? (2014, result): “Our results are consistent with the line of literature such as Clarke et al. (2003, 2007), Rehman et al. (2008), Kim and Lin (2011), Rötheli (2011) Batuo et al. (2012), Nikoloski (2012).”
Finance and Inequality: Theory and Evidence (2009, unknown): “Clarke, Xu, and Zou (2006) and Li, Squire, Zou (1998) find that financial development is associated with lower levels income inequality.”
Identifying Constraints to Financial Inclusion and Their Impact on GDP and Inequality: A Structural Framework for Policy (2015, background): “There is also evidence that aggregate financial depth is positively associated with poverty reduction and income inequality (Beck et al., 2007; Clarke et al., 2006).”
Financial inclusion and poverty: a tale of forty-five thousand households (2020, background): “…a growing body of literature has sought to empirically examine the impact of finance on income distribution on the one hand (see, e.g. Ang 2010; Clarke, Xu, and Zou 2006; de Haan and Sturm 2017; Shahbaz, Bhattacharya, and Mahalik 2017), and on the other hand, on poverty (see, e.g. Akhter and…”
The Elusive Quest for Inclusive Growth: Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in Asia (2013, background): “…falls more rapidly in economies with more developed financial intermediaries, such as banks or insurance companies; and for such economies, the income of the lowest quintile grows faster than average income (see, among others, Clarke, Xu, and Zhou, 2006 and Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt, Levine, 2007).”