White and Anderson (2001) constructed the data set using the Deininger and Squire database. They
identify 143 growth episodes in all, of which about half are from developing countries. Coverage of Africa
was weak, with only Zambia appearing from Sub-Saharan Africa. Data for the countries of the former
Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were only up to the 1980s, thus pre-dating the large increases in
inequality which took place in the early 1990s. 10 See Deininger and Squire (1996), Ravallion and Chen (1997), Easterly (1999), and Dollar and Kraay
(2002).
11 Alessina and Rodrik (1994) and Perotti (1996) find a negative relationship, Li and Zhou (1998) and
Forbes (2000) find a positive relationship, and Barro (2000) and Lopez (2004a) find no relationship.