Growth and inequality convergence: the role of environmentally related impacts on human capital

Angela Cindy Emefa Mensah and Edward Barbier

No wp-2022-110, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: We examine inequality convergence over the past three decades and ask if environmentally related impacts on health, and their effect on human capital, are responsible for the slow rate of inequality reduction in countries. Though higher initial incidence of environmentally related impacts on health simultaneously worsens the rate of inequality reduction, we find that those countries that experience faster reduction in the level of environmentally related impacts on health tend to converge to a lower level of inequality more quickly than their counterparts.

Keywords: Inequality; Convergence; environmental impact; Health; Income; Growth; Human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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