"Markets and the Dynamics of Inequality: Theoretical Perspectives"
Jaime Kahhat

In its 2006 World Development Report the World Bank argues that there are two broad sets of reasons to believe that inequality can be detrimental to long-run growth and development.

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"The Political Economy of Redistributive Policies"
James A. Robinson

Many factors influence the distribution of assets and income that a market economy will generate. These include the distribution of innate abilities, the nature of technology, and the types of market imperfections which determine investment opportunities and the distribution of human and physical capital.

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"Dynamics of Inequality in Guatemala"
Lucilla Bruni, Alberto Fuentes and Tomás Rosada

Between 2000 and 2006, Guatemala achieved some, though modest, improvement in terms of inequality and poverty. We find evidence that those improvements did not benefit the poorest; rather, they benefited individuals in the middle ange of the distribution.

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