New geography of global income inequality, the
Auteur :
Firebaugh, Glenn
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674019874
Date de publication :
1 mars 2006
Dimensions :
22,7 x 14,6 x 1,7 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
As the demographer Glenn Firebaugh carefully shows, income inequality for the world peaked in the late twentieth century and is now heading downward because of declining income inequality across nations. Furthermore, as income inequality declines across nations, it is rising within nations (though not as rapidly as it is declining across nations).