Regional Integration and Income Inequality in ECOWAS Zone

Regional Integration and Wage Inequality

There is little disagreement among most economists that countries benefit from trade liberalization. Yet, whether unilateral, multilateral (through the World Trade Organization) or through regional integration agreements (RIAs), trade liberalization has been one of the most controversial economic issues of our time. It is the focus of everyone from politicians to union leaders and anti-globaliz...

Regional Income Inequality in Selected Large Countries

Regional Income Inequality in Selected Large Countries Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in a selection of large countries measured by the...

Regional Trade Integration and Spatial Effects in the Euro Mediterranean Zone

Spatial Analysis of Regional Income Inequality

Questions surrounding regional economic convergence have commanded a great deal of recent attention in economics literature. As in other recent cases in the social sciences, the application of spatially explicit methods of data analysis to the convergence question has yielded important insights on regional economic growth. By contrast, the literature on regional income inequality, although some...

Regional Income Inequality in China and Indonesia A Comparative Analysis