<p></p><p>Despite the fact that the global economy grows, the income inequality
increases. The Income Inequality is an important factor which affects the human
life negatively both in the financial and the social manner. It has been made
lots of investigations whose topic is the economic growth and the income
inequality. In this paper, it has been compared the connection between the
economic growth and the income inequality in terms of the polity in the
countries. Therefore, it has been desired to be brought a different perspective
into the literature on the subject of the economic growth and the income
inequality. It has been given information about the situation in the world
especially aimed at the income inequality. The correlation of “Gini
Coefficient” and “Economic Growth” belonging to the democratic countries (USA,
United Kingdom and Germany) and the autocratic countries (Ethiopia, Nigeria and
Gabon) in terms of their polities has been tested with the Panel Data
Methodology. Empirical analysis involves the period of 1995-2015. In the
results obtained by making Panel Data Model, it has been ascertained a negative
correlation between the Economic Growth and the Income Inequality for the
democratic countries. However in the autocratic countries, it has been seen
that this correlation is very weak.</p><br><p></p>