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Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy

Volume II: Regions and Regularities

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Joseph Stiglitz is an extremely highprofile and wellregarded economist who won the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in 2001.
  • Kaushik Basu is also a very wellknown and respected economist who currently holds the position of Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank.
  • Numerous influential economists and policymakers contribute to this volume, providing a thorough and comprehensive insight into the links between economic development and inequality.

Part of the book series: International Economic Association Series (IEA)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
  2. The Inheritance of Employers and Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility

    • Miles Corak, Patrizio Piraino, Francisco H. G. Ferreira
    Pages 1-34
  3. The University of Texas Inequality Project Global Inequality Data Sets, 1963–2008: Updates, Revisions and Quality Checks

    • James K. Galbraith, Beatrice Halbach, Aleksandra Malinowska, Amin Shams, Wenjie Zhang, Edward N. Wolff
    Pages 98-135
  4. Inequality and the Fragility of Growth

    • Jonathan D. Ostry, François Bourguignon
    Pages 136-162
  5. Inequality in Arab Countries

    • Radwan A. Shaban, Shantayanan Devarajan
    Pages 195-211
  6. Deconstructing the Decline in Inequality in Latin America

    • Nora Lustig, Luis F. Lopez-Calva, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez, Célestin Monga
    Pages 212-247
  7. Caste Discrimination in Contemporary India

    • Ashwini Deshpande, William Darity Jr.
    Pages 248-273
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 274-282

About this book

It was part of common wisdom that in the early stages of development inequality would rise, but it would, eventually, decline. As time passed and growth persisted, inequality has, however, continued to grow, casting doubt on the received wisdom.

Reviews

“This valuable and timely collection results from an International Economics Association gathering in Dead Sea, Jordan … . this is a valuable collection not only for development economists but for all those interested in the classical issues of political economy.” (Valpy FitzGerald, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 56 (2), June, 2018)

Editors and Affiliations

  • World Bank, USA

    Kaushik Basu

  • Columbia University, New York, USA

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

About the editors

Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University and the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics. He served on President Clinton's economic team as a member and then Chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisors in the mid-1990s. He then joined the World Bank as Chief Economist and Senior Vice President.

Kaushik Basu is the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank currently on leave from Cornell where he is Professor of Economics and the C. Marks Professor of International Studies. Previously he served as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India.

Bibliographic Information

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