Aidin Poorabdollahi Sheshgelani - Master of Executive Management, Department of Management, Tabriz branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
Arash Ketabforoush Badri - PhD Student of Economics, Department of Economics, College of Management and Accounting, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran

Among the various economic issues, both economic growth and income distribution has been of particular importance and with the advent of economic development has become more prominent attention to this issue. The relationship between growth and income distribution has been much studied and much debated. Scholars have advanced a number of hypotheses linking growth to inequality, with causation running in one direction or the other. For this purpose, this study is trying to pay the relationship between income distribution and economic growth in selected developing countries in the period 2000-2013 using panel data. The results show that the improvement of distribution of income can lead to economic growth of the studied countries. Also, physical capital index, active population and index of economic globalization have positive effect on economic growth.

Income distribution, economic growth, panel data. JEL Classification:C23, D33, D63, O15