Growth and inequality: Understanding recent trends and political choices

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Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 66-75

  Pogge, Thomas ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 57749138116     PISSN: 00123846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/dss.2008.0024     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. From devdata.worldbank.org/dataonline (accessed June 15, 2007). This database does not provide inflation-adjusted GNI data. Nonetheless, the ratios of these nominal $-figures (in the right-hand column) are comparable across years.
2. Calculated by dividing the two residuals: (world GNI minus high-income country GNI) divided by (world population minus high-income country population). Data from devdata.worldbank.org/dataonline (accessed June 15, 2007).
3. Branko Milanovic, Worlds Apart: Measuring International and Global Inequality (Princeton University Press, 2005).
4. See, for example, Kevin Danaher, ed., 50 Years Is Enough: The Case Against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (South End Press, 1994);
5. Thomas Pogge, World Poverty and Human Rights (Polity Press, 2002);
6. Peter Singer, One World (Yale University Press, 2002);
7. Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents (Norton, 2002);
8. George Monbiot, Manifesto for a New World Order (New Press, 2004).
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10. David Leonhardt, "Larry Summers's Evolution," New York Times Magazine, June 10, 2007, www.wider.unu.edu/wiid/wiid.htm (10 June 2007)
11. Maya Roney, "The Global Millionaire Boom," Business Week, October 18, 2007.
12. World Bank, World Development Report 2007 (Washington: World Bank, 2006), Table 1 (pp. 288-9), using purchasing power parities (PPPs) to convert into $s.
13. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Human Development Report 2006 (Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), Table 15 (pp. 335-8) as updated from devdata.worldbank.org/dataonline (accessed August 2, 2007).
14. Calculated from China's population and poverty head count index as provided at devdata.worldbank.org/dataonline and iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/jsp/indexjsp (accessed June 11, 2007).
15. See Sanjay Reddy and Camelia Minoiu, "Chinese Poverty: Assessing the Impact of Alternative Assumptions" (2007), at www.columbia.edu/-cm2036/china.pdf (accessed June 11, 2007).
16. See also Albert Keidel, "The Limits of a Smaller, Poorer China," Financial Times, November 13, 2007 (www.ft.com)
17. See devdata.worldbank.org/dataonline (accessed June 10, 2007).
18. Data from iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/jsp/index.jsp (accessed June 10, 2007). Full calculations are on file with the author.
19. See devdata.worldbank.org/dataonline (accessed August 4, 2007).
20. See James Davies, Susanna Sandstrom, Anthony Shorrocks, and Edward Wolff, The World Distribution of Household Wealth (WIDER, 2006)
21. See www.fic.nih.gov/about/plan/exec_summary.htm (accessed June 16, 2007).
22. UNDP: Human Development Report 1998 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 49.
23. See www.uis.unesco.org.
24. International Labour Office (ILO): The End of Child Labour: Within Reach (Geneva: ILO Publications, 2006), p. xi and Table 1.1.
25. Rome Declaration on World Food Security, www.fao.org/ufs.
26. See www.un.org/millennium.
27. UNDP, Human Development Report 1996 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 20, and UNDP 2006 (note 10), p. 174.