Milanovic Worlds Apart

Measuring International and Global Inequality
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4081-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Branko Milanovic is Lead Economist in the World Bank research department, working on income inequality and poverty. The author of Income, Inequality, and Poverty during the Transition and the coauthor of Income and Influence: Social Policy in Emerging Market Economies, he is currently an associate scholar with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a visiting professor at the School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Milanovic, Branko

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Prologue: The Promise of the Twentieth Century 1

Introduction: A Topic Whose Time Has Come 3

PART I: SETTING THE STAGE

Chapter 1: The Three Concepts of Inequality Defined 7

Chapter 2: Other Differences between the Concepts 12

Chapter 3: International and World Inequality Compared 20

PART II: INEQUALITY AMONG COUNTRIES

Chapter 4: Rising Differences in Per Capita Incomes 31

Chapter 5: Regional Convergence, Divergence, or. ''Vergence'' 45

Chapter 6: The Shape of International GDP Per Capita Distribution 51

Chapter 7: Winners and Losers: Increasing Dominance of the West 61

PART III: GLOBAL INEQUALITY

Chapter 8: Concept 2 Inequality: Decreasing in the Past Twenty Years 85

Chapter 9: High Global Inequality: No Trend? 101

Chapter 10: A World without a Middle Class 128

PART IV: CONCLUDING COMMENTS

Chapter 11: The Three Concepts of Inequality in Historical Perspective 139

Chapter 12: Why Does Global Inequality Matter and What to Do about It? 149

Appendixes 1-7 163

Notes 195

References 213

Index of Authors 223

Index of Subjects 225

Über Autor(innen)

Branko Milanovic is Lead Economist in the World Bank research department, working on income inequality and poverty. The author of Income, Inequality, and Poverty during the Transition and the coauthor of Income and Influence: Social Policy in Emerging Market Economies, he is currently an associate scholar with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a visiting professor at the School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.