Industrialization Options for the Poorest Countries
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The Evolution of the World Income Distribution - Business Review, Second Quarter 2008
of the world’s population has a living standard well below that of the average U.s. citizen. indeed, inhabitants of the world’s poorest countries face daily hardships and deprivations that are so foreign to the citizens of rich countries as to be hard to believe. however, this large difference in per capita income across countries has not always existed. it wasn’t until the early 19th century t...
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تاریخ انتشار 2007