Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Looking Beyond Averages

Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Prospects for Pro-poor Economic Development

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Ravallion, Martin ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Globalization; Inequality; Poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920175802     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199268657.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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