New Markets, New Opportunities? - Economic and Social Mobility in a Changing World

This book provides a summary of the latest research on the economics and politics of social mobility in both developed and emerging market economies, including the conceptual issues involved and the challenges of accurately documenting trends.

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Edited by Nancy Birdsall and Carol L. Graham

Summary

Many of the countries that have recently converted to a market-based economic system have also experienced an alarming increase in income inequality — a widening gap between the haves and have nots.

Product details

• Authors: N Birdsall, Carnegie Endowment For International Pea, C Graham
• Assisted by: Nancy Birdsall (Editor), Birdsall Nancy (Editor), Carol Graham (Editor), Carol L Graham (Editor), Carol L. Graham (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1999
• EAN: 9780815709176
• ISBN: 978-0-8157-0917-6
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 463 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Poverty & unemployment, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Poverty and precarity