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 … theoretical and empirical approaches, Fields defines and examines inequality, poverty, income mobility, and economic well …

growth and inequality across nations. The questions raised by these results include: What is the impact on inequality of … policies designed to foster growth? Does inequality by itself facilitate or detract from economic growth, and does it amplify … policy issues involved in the relationship between growth and inequality. The aim is to develop a framework for determining …

-country convergence, the effects of financial development on growth, and the consequences of globalization. The book, which grew out of … development, discussing such topics as club convergence, directed technical change, the transition from Malthusian stagnation to …

. It has been blamed at various times for increasing wage and income inequality, unemployment, obsolescence of physical and … inequality, unemployment, capital accumulation, education, competition, natural resources, international trade, economic cycles …