Rural and Urban Income Inequality and Poverty: Does Convergence between Sectors Offset Divergence within Them?

Inequality Growth and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization and Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Eastwood, Robert ^a   Lipton, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumption inequality; Convergence; Developing countries; Developing economies; Divergence; Econometric analysis; Income inequality; Inequality; Intrasectoralinequality; Offsetting trends in inequality hypothesis; Poverty; Rural urban consumption ratios; Rural urban inequality; Rural Urban poverty ratios; Rural urban ratios; Transitional countries; Transitional economies; Urban bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920139710     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199271410.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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