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The topic of poverty and inequality is still a central discussion among the economist. The current efforts in fighting poverty and inequality, which are considered unsuccessful, has motivated the economist and policy makers to find new ideas and strategies in combatting poverty and inequality. At the same time, the area of economic freedom is increasingly being discussed and linked with other major economic areas. This paper aims to examine the relationship between economic freedom and poverty as well as inequality ...

The paper explores the economic and security dependence of an entity on others as reasons for the inability to implement military intervention by applying forecast error variance decomposition (FEVD) on economic and security data. Specifically, the paper evaluates the economic and security dependence of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on the United Nations (UN) Security Council to understand OIC's inability to initiate military intervention in OIC member countries ...

Income inequality isn't new thing, but recently it has made it presence in news, political discussions etc. It has now become the key and defining challenge of our time. Both the developed and developing countries have reported massive amount of income disparities within their respected countries. In this paper we study the links and effects of the macroeconomic variables especially economic development and financial development on income inequality. We restrict our study to OIC countries. Simon Kuznet hypothesis is taken as the theoretical basis for this study ...