Publication
Jul 2002
This paper raises doubts over the claims that world poverty and world income inequality have both fallen over the past two decades or so, and that more open economies have better economic performance in terms of growth and poverty reduction than less open economies. It then discusses a few of the deep structural causes at work in the world economy that may be invoked to explain the failure of the liberal claim.
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Author | Robert Wade |
Series | LSE International Development Working Papers |
Issue | 33 |
Publisher | LSE Department of International Development (ID) |
Copyright | © 2002 LSE |