/provinces in China and India. The United States, where regional inequality is the least, shows further convergence. Brazil, with …"The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in the five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the … United States, Indonesia, and Brazil in the period 1980-2000. They are all federations or quasi-federations composed of …

of 'globalization.' Ravallion views the issue through both 'macro' and 'micro' empirical lenses. The macro lens uses … modeling of the impacts of specific trade reforms. The author presents case studies for China and Morocco. Both the macro and … micro approaches cast doubt on some wide generalizations from both sides of the globalization debate. Additionally the micro …