Inequality, Growth, and Poverty: An Overview of Changes over the Last Two Decades

Inequality Growth and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization and Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Cornia, Giovanni Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Causes; Change; Economic growth; Economic policy; Globalization; Golden age; Growth; History; Income distribution; Income inequality; Inequality; Inequality change; Liberalization; Methodology; Poverty; Research methodology; Skills; Stabilization; Structural factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 6944246543     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199271410.003.0001     Document Type: Chapter

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