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Flat World, Big Gaps

Economic Liberalization, Globalization Poverty and Inequality

  • Author: UN, DESA
  • Publication date: January 2007
  • Page count: 436
  • Language(s) in this book: English
  • Sales number: 06.IV.5

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The present publication critically considers the impact of economic liberalization and globalization on inequality and poverty. The first half surveys the major analytical issues in the recent study of global inequalities. The second half of the volume surveys recent inequality trends in various parts of the world including the OECD, the USA, Eastern Europe and the CIS economies, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, India, East Asia and China.