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Finance & Development December 1, 2001 Robert Hunter Wade	The Rising Inequality of World Income Distribution A lot is at stake in the question of whether world income distribution has become more, or less, equal over the past twenty years or so. What could cause rising inequality? What are the consequences?
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Reason June 2009 Brink Lindsey	Nostalgianomics The rise in income inequality does raise issues of legitimate public concern. But the caricature of postwar history put forward by purveyors of nostalgianomics won't lead us anywhere.
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Finance & Development September 1, 2002 Shang-Jin Wei	Is Globalization Good for the Poor in China? Developing countries worry that opening up to trade with the rest of the world may make the poor poorer and the rich richer, with China sometimes cited as an example of growing income inequality. A recent IMF study, however, finds that the reality is far more complex.
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Salon.com September 20, 2000 David Moberg	Everything you know about the new economy is wrong In California, birthplace of the high-tech boom, the wage gap is growing, setting yet another national trend...
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