Growing unequal? : income distribution and poverty in OECD countries.
Growing Unequal? brings together a range of analyses on the distribution of economic resources in OECD countries. The evidence on income distribution and poverty covers, for the first time, all 30 OECD countries in the mid-2000s, while information on trends extending back to the mid-1980s is provide...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Paris :
OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
[2008]
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| Summary: | Growing Unequal? brings together a range of analyses on the distribution of economic resources in OECD countries. The evidence on income distribution and poverty covers, for the first time, all 30 OECD countries in the mid-2000s, while information on trends extending back to the mid-1980s is provided for around two-thirds of the countries. The report also describes inequalities in a range of domains (such as household wealth, consumption patterns, in-kind public services) that are typically excluded from conventional discussion about the distribution of economic resources among individuals and households. Precisely how much inequality there is in a society is not determined randomly, nor is it beyond the power of governments to change, so long as they take note of the sort of up-to-date evidence included in this report. |
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| Item Description: | Also published in French under the title: Croissance et inégalités : distribution des revenus et pauvreté dans les pays de l'OCDE. |
| Physical Description: | 308 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. Also available in print. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789264044180 9264044183 |