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Evidence from this study shows a significant relationship between growth and income inequality in which inequality creates a negative impact on the growth, but the impact of economic growth on income inequality is nonlinear. This result captures the Kuznets Hypothesis, finding the level of growth that can reduce unequal distribution of income in Thailand. Finally, this study also discovers a certain level of inflation that can help reduce income inequality effectively.
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The Gini coefficient is a number on a scale measured from 0 to 1, where 0 represents perfect equality and 1 represents total inequality [15].
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Maneejuk, P., Pastpipatkul, P., Sriboonchitta, S. (2016). Economic Growth and Income Inequality: Evidence from Thailand. In: Huynh, VN., Inuiguchi, M., Le, B., Le, B., Denoeux, T. (eds) Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making. IUKM 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9978. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49046-5_55
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