World Inequality in the Twenty-First Century: Patterns and Tendencies

The Blackwell Companion to Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 565-592

  Korzeniewicz, Roberto Patricio ^a,b   Moran, Timothy Patrick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Fiscal autonomy; Industrialization; Market integration; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889488592     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470691939.ch29     Document Type: Chapter

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