Screen LibraryWorlds apart：measuring international and global inequality
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. |
| Publication Dates: | c2005. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | ix, 227 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0691121109 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | F113 |
| CLC: | F113.8 |
| Call Number: | F113.8/M637 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-221) and indexes. The promise of the twentieth century -- A topic whose time has come -- I: Setting the stage -- The three concepts of inequality defined -- Other differences between the concepts -- International and world inequality compared -- II: Inequality among countries -- Rising differences in per capita incomes -- Regional convergence, divergence, or ... "vergence" -- The shape of international GDP per capita distribution -- Winners and losers: increasing dominance of the west -- III: Global inequality -- Concept 2 inequality: decreasing in the past twenty years -- High global inequality: no trend? -- A world without a middle class -- IV: Concluding comments -- The three concepts of inequality in historical perspective -- Why does global inequality matter and what to do about it? |