2026-07-01http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/413405The paper proposes an approach to understand the relationship between inequality and economic growth obtained by shifting the analysis from the space of final achievements to the space of opportunities. To this end, it introduces a formal framework based on the concept of the Opportunity Growth Incidence Curve. This framework can be used to evaluate the income dynamics of specific groups of the population and to infer the role of growth in the evolution of inequality of opportunity over time. The paper shows the relevance of the introduced framework by providing two empirical analyses, one for Italy and the other for Brazil. These analyses show the distributional impact of the recent growth experienced by Brazil and the recent crisis suffered by Italy from both the income inequality and opportunity inequality perspectives.application/pdftext/plainCC BY 3.0 IGOhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/World BankAGGREGATE GROWTHAGGREGATE MEASUREAGRICULTURAL SECTORAVERAGE GROWTHAVERAGE GROWTH RATEAVERAGE INCOMECAPACITY BUILDINGCAPITA INCOME GROWTHCUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTIONCUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONDESCRIPTIVE STATISTICSDEVELOPING COUNTRIESDEVELOPMENT ECONOMICSDEVELOPMENT POLICYDEVELOPMENT REPORTDISPOSABLE INCOMEDISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGESDISTRIBUTIONAL DYNAMICSDISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTDISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTSDISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACTDISTRIBUTIONAL IMPLICATIONSECONOMETRICSECONOMIC ACTIVITYECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTECONOMIC GROWTHECONOMIC INEQUALITYECONOMIC REFORMSECONOMIC RELATIONSECONOMIC RESEARCHECONOMIC REVIEWECONOMIC STUDIESECONOMIC TRENDSECONOMICS LETTERSEMPIRICAL ANALYSISEMPIRICAL APPLICATIONEMPIRICAL ESTIMATESEMPIRICAL EVIDENCEEMPIRICAL SECTIONFINANCIAL CRISISFUTURE RESEARCHGDPGINI INDEXGROWTH ANALYSISGROWTH EPISODEGROWTH EPISODESGROWTH PERIODGROWTH PROCESSGROWTH RATEGROWTH RATESGROWTH RESULTSGROWTH SPELLHEADCOUNT RATIOHEALTH CAREHOUSEHOLD INCOMEHOUSEHOLD MEMBERSHOUSEHOLD SIZEHUMAN CAPITALINCOME CHANGEINCOME DECLINEINCOME DISTRIBUTIONINCOME DISTRIBUTIONSINCOME GROWTHINCOME GROWTH RATEINCOME INEQUALITYINCOME POVERTYINCOME QUANTILESINCOMESINDIVIDUAL INCOMESINEQUALITY AVERSIONINEQUALITY DECLINESINEQUALITY INDEXINEQUALITY MEASUREINTERNATIONAL COMPARISONSLABOR MARKETLORENZ CURVEMBIMEAN GROWTHMEAN INCOMEMEAN INCOME GROWTHMEASURING INEQUALITYNEGATIVE GROWTHNEGATIVE IMPACTNEGATIVE VALUENORMATIVE ECONOMICSOPPORTUNITY SETOPPORTUNITY SETSPENSIONSPER CAPITA INCOMEPOLICY DISCUSSIONSPOLICY INTERVENTIONSPOLICY MAKERSPOLICY RESEARCHPOPULATION SHAREPOSITIVE GROWTHPOSITIVE ROLEPOSITIVE VALUEPOVERTY DYNAMICSPOVERTY HEADCOUNTPOVERTY REDUCTIONPOVERTY-GROWTH-INEQUALITY TRIANGLEPRO-POORPRO-POOR GROWTHPRODUCTION FUNCTIONPROGRAMSPUBLIC ECONOMICSPUBLIC INTERVENTIONPUBLIC POLICIESREDISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACTREDISTRIBUTIVE IMPACTRELATIVE POSITIONRISK AVERSESECOND-ORDER DOMINANCESOCIAL DEVELOPMENTSOCIAL PROTECTIONSOCIAL SECURITYSTANDARD TOOLWEALTH