Document Type : ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Authors

• Mehdi zahed gharavi ¹
• Meisam Haddad ²
• fatemeh sadeghpour ³
• Mohammad Reza Mohammadi ⁴

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Ayatollah Boroujerdi University

² PhD in Economic sciences, Head of the Quarterly Accounts of the Economic Accounts Department in Statistics Center of Iran, Tehran

³ Ph.D. in Economics, Faculty of Management and Economics, Lorestan university, Khorramabad, Iran.

⁴ Assistant Professor of economics Department of economics and accounting faculty of management Imam Khomeini maritime University Nowshahr Iran

Abstract

Income distribution inequality is one of the challenges and problems of every economy. If the inequality of income distribution increases sharply, social discontent will be fueled and the risk of social and political unrest will increase sharply. Considering the importance of the relationship between economic growth and inequality of income distribution and the possibility of differences in this relationship in different countries, this research examines the relationship between economic growth and inequality of income distribution in developed and developing countries and transition economies with the Panel data method. reviewed in the period from 2003 to 2019. The findings of the research indicate that in developed countries the Kuznets U-shaped inverted curve has not been confirmed, but it has been confirmed in developing countries. Also, in transitioning economies, the relationship between economic growth and income distribution inequality is not secondary, but linear and inverse. The results of this study can be used in planning and making decisions for the distribution of income among different countries based on the degree of development and forecasting their economic growth.

Keywords

• Income Distribution
• Economic Growth
• developed countries
• developing countries
• economies in transition

Main Subjects

• Income inequality