Worlds Apart: Measuring International and Global Inequality

摘要: 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: Three Concepts Inequality Defined 7 2: Other Differences between 12 3: International and World Compared 20 II: INEQUALITY AMONG COUNTRIES 4: Rising in Per Capita Incomes 31 5: Regional Convergence, Divergence, or ... "Vergence" 45 6: Shape GDP Distribution 51 7: Winners Losers: Increasing Dominance West 61 III: GLOBAL 8: Concept 2 Inequality: Decreasing Past Twenty Years 85 9: High Global No Trend? 101 10: without a Middle Class 128 IV: CONCLUDING COMMENTS 11: Historical Perspective 139 12: Why Does Matter What to Do about It? 149 Appendixes 1-7 163 Notes 195 References 213 Index Authors 223 Subjects 225