Infrastructure and Income Distribution in ASEAN-5: What are the Links?
February 11, 2013
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Summary
Adequate infrastructure has long been viewed as an important factor in economic development. Based on regressions covering 76 advanced and emerging market economies, this paper estimates the impact of infrastructure and investment on income distribution. It finds that better infrastructure, both quality and quantity, promotes income equality, while the link between investment and income distribution is weak.
Subject: Income, Income distribution, Income inequality, Infrastructure, National accounts, Private investment
Keywords: ASEAN-5, de-meaned Gini index, emerging market economy, flood-prevention investment, GINI, Gini coefficient, Gini index data, Global, Inclusive Growth, Income, Income Distribution, income equality, Income inequality, income share, Infrastructure, infrastructure quantity index, investment, investment variable, Private investment, quality index, quantity, WP
Pages:
19
Volume:
2013
DOI:
Issue:
041
Series:
Working Paper No. 2013/041
Stock No:
WPIEA2013041
ISBN:
9781589068018
ISSN:
1018-5941
