The new geography of global income inequality
- ISBN: 9780674019874
- Editorial: Harvard University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2003
- Lugar de la edición: Cambridge (Massachusetts). Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Nº Pág.: 257
- Idiomas: Inglés
The surprising finding of this book is that global income inequality is decreasing. Critics of globalisation and others maintain that the spread of consumer capitalism is dramatically polarising the worldwide distribution of income. But as the demographer Glenn Firebaugh carefully shows, income inequality for the world peaked in the late 20th 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. Firebaugh claims that this historic transition represents a new geography of global income inequality in the 21st Century.
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?
