One of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith's proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good …
The paper studies the relation between globalization, inequality, and marginalization, within and across countries. It reviews the existing evidence on globalization and global inequality …
Two opposing views exist in the literature on the potential role that international fish trade plays in economic development. While some claim that fish trade has a pro-poor effect …
B Sutcliffe - Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2004 - academic.oup.com
The article assesses recent attempts to measure the level and changes in world inequality. It compares results based on country averages, population-weighted inter-country Gini …
HH van Ark, EHP Frankema, H Duteweerd - 2004 - research.rug.nl
This study argues that the creation of productive jobs is the key to economic growth, social development and improvements in living standards. The study provides extensive empirical …
P Liberati - Review of Income and Wealth, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper provides a full decomposition of world inequality, as measured by the G ini coefficient, in the period 1970–2009. In particular, using the A nalysis of G ini (ANOGI), the …
The Politics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil examines the interrelationships among peasant mobilization, agrarian reform and cooperativism in contemporary Brazil. Specifically, it …
Flat World, Big Gaps critically considers the impact of economic liberalization and globalization on inequality and poverty. The first half surveys the major analytical issues in …
B Goesling, DP Baker - Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2008 - Elsevier
Recent studies of international inequality have focused mostly on the trend in international income inequality. This article extends the analysis of international inequality to also include …