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Illusions of prosperity
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Joel Blau |
"In Illusions of Prosperity, Blau launches a far-reaching assault on the idea that "the market" knows best. Blau writes that while the share of the national income held by the bottom four-fifths of t… |
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Poverty and income distribution in Latin America
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George Psacharopoulos |
"Highly empirical analysis documents increase in poverty and worsening of income distribution during 1980s. Demonstrates that low levels of education increase incidence of poverty and income inequali… |
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Economic policy & equity
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Sanjeev Gupta,Vito Tanzi,Ke-young Chu |
This book brings together the views not only of policymakers and academics but also of religious leaders and labor leaders from around the world- including the 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Amart… |
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Poverty, inequality, and the future of social policy
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Wilson, William J.,Roger Lawson,Katherine McFate |
During the prosperous 1980s, increased unemployment and widening income inequality throughout the Western world raised the paradoxical specter of a new and acute form of poverty in advanced economies… |
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The New Geography of Global Income Inequality
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Glenn Firebaugh |
"The surprising finding of this book is that, contrary to conventional wisdom, global income inequality is decreasing. Critics of globalization and others maintain that the spread of consumer capital… |
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