TY  - BOOK
AU  - Firebaugh,Glenn
TI  - The new geography of global income inequality
SN  - 0674010671 (alk. paper)
AV  - HC 79 F523n 2003
U1  - 338.9 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Income distribution
KW  - Distribución del ingreso
KW  - Desigualdad económica regional
KW  - Crecimiento económico
KW  - Inversiones
KW  - Inversiones extranjeras
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-249) and index; Massive global income inequality : when did it arise and why does it matter? -- The reversal of historical inequality trends -- How is national income measured, and can we trust the data? -- Inequality : what it is and how it is measured -- What we already know -- Income inequality across nations in the late twentieth century -- Weighted versus unweighted inequality : key to the divergence debate -- Continental divides : Asia, Africa, and the reversal of the trend -- Change in income inequality within nations -- Causes of the inequality transition -- The future of global income inequality -- Epilogue : does rising income bring greater happiness?
ER  -