Measuring the impact of various income sources on the link between inequality and development: Implications for the Kuznets curve

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 110-127

  Deutsch, Joseph ^a   Silber, Jacques ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; KUZNETS CURVE;

EID: 1342309486     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2004.00223.x     Document Type: Article

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