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Income Inequality and Economic Development

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  • Nancey Green Leigh

    (Georgia Institute of Technology)

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This review essay examines the economic development field's approach to the issue of income inequality—an issue that is one of the field's greatest and most enduring challenges. Only academic (or policy and research) circles pay much attention to the measurement of income inequality, and this essay reviews four recent book-length treatments of the subject. These books demonstrate that this attention tends to be greatest at the national level and rare at the local level. There is a need to instill a general concern over the issue of inequality at the local and practitioner levels of economic development as the trends of recent decades reviewed here document increasing income inequality.

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  • Nancey Green Leigh, 1995. "Income Inequality and Economic Development," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 9(1), pages 94-103, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecdequ:v:9:y:1995:i:1:p:94-103
    DOI: 10.1177/089124249500900111
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    1. J. C. Dissart, 2003. "Regional Economic Diversity and Regional Economic Stability: Research Results and Agenda," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 26(4), pages 423-446, October.
    2. Terry F. Buss & Laura C. Yancer, 1999. "Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Normative Perspective," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 13(1), pages 29-37, February.
    3. Susan E. Cozzens & Kamau Bobb, 2003. "Measuring the relationship between high technology development strategies and wage inequality," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 58(2), pages 351-368, October.
    4. John C. Leatherman & David W. Marcouiller, 1999. "Moving Beyond the Modeling of Regional Economic Growth: A Study of How Income is Distributed to Rural Households," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 13(1), pages 38-45, February.

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