This paper examines the income inequality implications of a ‘premature deindustrialization’ trend in middle-income countries. To identify premature deindustrialization phase, we arrive at five conditions based on trends employment and value-added share manufacture. Among these conditions, first second examine pattern economies. The last three classify identified phase as or not. We apply panel ...

The dual income tax combines a progressive tax on labor income and a lower flat rate tax on income from capital. Denmark, Finland, $orway, and Sweden adopted dual income taxes to address a set of tax challenges that arose in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Although developing countries face much different economic, political, and tax environments from the $ordic countries, the dual income tax m...

We document a relationship between income inequality and variability in aggregate consumption growth. In high-income countries, greater income inequality is associated with more volatility in consumption growth, whereas in lower-income countries, higher levels of income inequality are associated with less volatility. We present weaker evidence that variability in real GDP growth is also related...

Corruption is almost exist in all human societies throughout thehistory. Any continuation of corruption in different ages made most ofresearchers and policy makers to consider corruption as an inevitablepart of human being challenges (Mukum, 2008).Administrative corruption is common in most developed and/orunder –developed countries.In other words, there is no country in the world that has note...

Achieving a practical and productive balance in collaborative research between partners from high and lower income countries (North-South Collaborations) requires seeking win-win solutions. This issue requires time to engage each other and to understand each participant’s research priorities and to identify areas of mutual interest. In SACTRC’s experience, key elements include; building researc...

This paper presents, within a framework of the Solow model, evidence that there should be two different reasons for convergence. One is due to diminishing returns to capital and the other is due to technological diffusion. This paper shows that OECD and low income countries follow a pattern of conditional convergence but middle income countries do not. This seems to imply that technological dif...