Income Distribution Changes and Their Impact in the Post-Second World War Period

Inequality Growth and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization and Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Cornia, Giovanni Andrea ^a   Addison, Tony ^b   Kiiski, Sampsa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Change; Developed countries; Developing countries; Developing economies; Econometric analysis; Economic growth; Egalitarianism; Growth; History; Income distribution; Income inequality; Industrialized economies; Inequality; Inequality change; Inequality trends; Poverty; Poverty alleviation; Socialist economies; Transitional countries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920131353     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199271410.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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