Poverty and Inequality in the Global Economy

Monthly Review

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 37-48

  Yates, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 1142290786     PISSN: 00270520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14452/MR-055-09-2004-02_4     Document Type: Review

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1. Details of DeLong's contentions, including draft material for a book, Slouching Toward Utopia can be found at http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_title.html.
2. For details on poverty, see Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and Heather Boushey, The State of Working America, 2002-2003 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003), 309-56. For the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data see http://www.census.gov. For international comparisons using the 50 percent of median income definition, see Mishel, State, 416.
3. For details on poverty, see Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and Heather Boushey, The State of Working America, 2002-2003 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003), 309-56. For the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data see http://www.census.gov. For international comparisons using the 50 percent of median income definition, see Mishel, State, 416.
4. On income inequality, see Mishel, Berstein, & Boushey, State, 33-112. The income data in the paragraph are taken from http://www.census.gov. The wealth data are from Doug Henwood, "Distributing the Booty," http://www.panix.com/̃dhenwood/Wealth_distrib.html. The Krugman data are from Paul Krugman, "The Rich, the Right, and the Facts," The American Prospect 11 (fall 1992), 19-31.
5. On income inequality, see Mishel, Berstein, & Boushey, State, 33-112. The income data in the paragraph are taken from http://www.census.gov. The wealth data are from Doug Henwood, "Distributing the Booty," http://www.panix.com/̃dhenwood/Wealth_distrib.html. The Krugman data are from Paul Krugman, "The Rich, the Right, and the Facts," The American Prospect 11 (fall 1992), 19-31.
6. On income inequality, see Mishel, Berstein, & Boushey, State, 33-112. The income data in the paragraph are taken from http://www.census.gov. The wealth data are from Doug Henwood, "Distributing the Booty," http://www.panix.com/̃dhenwood/Wealth_distrib.html. The Krugman data are from Paul Krugman, "The Rich, the Right, and the Facts," The American Prospect 11 (fall 1992), 19-31.
7. Michael D. Yates, Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2003), 58-59.
8. Economist Alan B. Krueger reports on the relevant studies in "The Apple Falls Close to the Tree, Even in the Land of Opportunity," New York Times, November 14, 2002.
9. The quote is from Yates, Naming, 60. It is taken from Peter Montague, "Economic Inequality and Health," http://www.korpios.org/resurgent/Inequality&Health.htm.
10. The quote is from Yates, Naming, 60. It is taken from Peter Montague, "Economic Inequality and Health," http://www.korpios.org/resurgent/Inequality&Health.htm.
11. See Helen Epstein, "Enough to Make You Sick?," New York Times Magazine, October 12, 2003.
12. For World Bank data on poverty, see the Bank's World Development Reports, http://www.worldbank.org. On the inadequacies of the World Bank's methods for calculating poverty rates, see articles available at http://www.columbia.edũsr793/. The quote is from George Monbiot, "Poor but Pedicured," The Guardian, May 6, 2003.
13. For World Bank data on poverty, see the Bank's World Development Reports, http://www.worldbank.org. On the inadequacies of the World Bank's methods for calculating poverty rates, see articles available at http://www.columbia.edũsr793/. The quote is from George Monbiot, "Poor but Pedicured," The Guardian, May 6, 2003.
14. For World Bank data on poverty, see the Bank's World Development Reports, http://www.worldbank.org. On the inadequacies of the World Bank's methods for calculating poverty rates, see articles available at http://www.columbia.edũsr793/. The quote is from George Monbiot, "Poor but Pedicured," The Guardian, May 6, 2003.
15. Paul Watson, "In India, No Job is Too Small," Los Angeles Times, October 25, 2003.
16. The quote is from Yates, Naming, 57-58. The original article is Branko Milanovic, "True World Income Distribution, 1988 and 1993: First Calculations Based on Household Surveys Alone," The Economic Journal 112 (January 2002), 51-92.
17. The quote is from Yates, Naming, 57-58. The original article is Branko Milanovic, "True World Income Distribution, 1988 and 1993: First Calculations Based on Household Surveys Alone," The Economic Journal 112 (January 2002), 51-92.
18. For a summary of the UN Report, see Larry Elliot, "The Lost Decade," The Guardian, July 9, 2003. The Galbraith quote is from James Galbraith, "Globalisation and Inequality: the Economist Gets it Wrong," http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-7-30-1483.jsp. On inequality in Vietnam, see "Vietnamese Earn More but Rich-Poor Gap Widens," http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/inequal/2003/0114vietnam.htm.
19. For a summary of the UN Report, see Larry Elliot, "The Lost Decade," The Guardian, July 9, 2003. The Galbraith quote is from James Galbraith, "Globalisation and Inequality: the Economist Gets it Wrong," http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-7-30-1483.jsp. On inequality in Vietnam, see "Vietnamese Earn More but Rich-Poor Gap Widens," http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/inequal/2003/0114vietnam.htm.
20. For a summary of the UN Report, see Larry Elliot, "The Lost Decade," The Guardian, July 9, 2003. The Galbraith quote is from James Galbraith, "Globalisation and Inequality: the Economist Gets it Wrong," http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-7-30-1483.jsp. On inequality in Vietnam, see "Vietnamese Earn More but Rich-Poor Gap Widens," http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/inequal/2003/0114vietnam.htm.
21. For a wide range of statistics on output, health, life expectancy, labor markets, and other economic indicators, see International Labor Office, Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002 (Geneva, Switzerland: International Labour Office, 2002).
22. Pritchett's methodology and the quote are in Lance Pritchett, "Forget Convergence: Divergence Past, Present, and Future," http://www.worldbank.org/fandd/english/0696/articles/090696.htm. For a discussion of the growth of per capita GDPs, see Galbraith, "Globalisation."
23. Pritchett's methodology and the quote are in Lance Pritchett, "Forget Convergence: Divergence Past, Present, and Future," http://www.worldbank.org/fandd/english/0696/articles/090696.htm. For a discussion of the growth of per capita GDPs, see Galbraith, "Globalisation."
24. For examples, see Alan B. Krueger, "Cloudy Thinking on Tax Cuts," New York Times, October 16, 2003.
25. Ignacio Ramonet, "The Social Wars," Le Monde Diplomatique, November 2002, available in English at http://mondediplo.com/2002/11/.