Declining international inequality and economic divergence: Reviewing the evidence through different lenses

Economie Internationale

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 13-26

  Bourguignon, François ^a   Levin, Victoria ^a   Rosenblatt, David ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence; Growth; Income distribution; Inequality; Mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 56949088039     PISSN: 12408095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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