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Distribution and Development : a New Look at the Developing World.

Most of the world's people live in "developing" economies, as do most of the world's poor. The predominant means of economic development is economic growth. In this book Gary Fields asks to what extent and in what circumstances economic growth improves the material standard of li...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fields, Gary S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Distribution and Development
  • Distribution and Development A NewLookatthe Developing World
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • The Distributional Effects of Economic Growth
  • The Meaning and Measurement of Income Inequality
  • Economic Growth and Inequality: A Review of the Empirical Evidence
  • The Measurement of Poverty
  • Does Economic Growth Reduce Absolute Poverty? A Review of the Empirical Evidence
  • The Meaning and Measurement of Income Mobility
  • Growth and Income Mobility: Some Initial Evidence for the Developing World
  • The Meaning and Measurement of Economic Well-BeingEmpirical Comparisons of Economic Well-being
  • Distribution and Development: Policies for Broad-Based Growth
  • References
  • Index