LEADER 02810oam 2200577M 450 001 9910779968903321 005 20190503073427.0 010 $a0-262-27260-1 010 $a0-585-38578-5 035 $a(CKB)111036011522048 035 $a(OCoLC)50855354 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary2001017 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000140162 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11147765 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000140162 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10029981 035 $a(PQKB)10522395 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338426 035 $a(OCoLC)923251559 035 $a(OCoLC-P)923251559 035 $a(MaCbMITP)2465 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338426 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr2001017 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111036011522048 100 $a20151010d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDistribution and Development $ea New Look at the Developing World 210 $aCambridge $cMIT Press$d2015 215 $a1 online resource (270 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-262-06215-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aMost of the world's people live in "developing" economies, as do most of the world's poor. The predominant means of economic development is economic growth. In this book Gary Fields asks to what extent and in what circumstances economic growth improves the material standard of living of a country's people. Most development economists agree that economic growth raises the incomes of people in all parts of the income distribution and lowers the poverty rate. At the same time, some groups lose out because of changes accompanying economic growth. Fields examines these beliefs, asking what variables should be measured to determine whether progress is being made and what policies and circumstances cause some countries to do better than others. He also shows how the same data can be interpreted to reach different, even conflicting, conclusions. Using both theoretical and empirical approaches, Fields defines and examines inequality, poverty, income mobility, and economic well-being. Finally, he considers various policies for broad-based growth. Copublished with the Russell Sage Foundation. 606 $aIncome distribution$zDeveloping countries 606 $aPoverty$zDeveloping countries 607 $aDeveloping countries$xEconomic conditions 610 $aECONOMICS/Trade & Development 615 0$aIncome distribution 615 0$aPoverty 676 $a339.22091724 700 $aFields$b Gary S$0249291 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779968903321 996 $aDistribution and Development$93819584 997 $aUNINA