Global inequality: bringing politics back in.
Data on contemporary global inequality are dramatic, widely known and a new conventional backdrop. In research and policy economists lead the way and the emphasis is on global poverty rather than inequality. Within nations poverty is a challenge, while inequality is not; on a world scale, arguably i...
| Publicado en: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 23; no. 6; pp. 1023 - 1047 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2002
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