November 23, 2002
Inequality of world incomes: what should be done?
The evidence strongly suggests that global income inequality has risen in the last twenty years. The standards of measuring this change, and the reasons for it, are contested – but the trend is clear. The ‘champagne glass’ effect implies that advocacy of globalisation is not enough: international organisations need to move beyond integration into the world economy as the primary goal of policy.
Posted at November 23, 2002 02:23 AM | Perspective
