Globalization and Global Inequalities: Recent Trends

The Blackwell Companion to Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 549-564

  Firebaugh, Glenn ^a   Goesling, Brian ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amartya Sen; Global health inequality; Global inequality; Industrial revolution; International organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249119976     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470691939.ch28     Document Type: Chapter

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