Latest update: 07/02/2011 

- development - economy - emerging countries - OECD - poverty


Rich and poor: a widening gap

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Is the pattern of growing inequality that we have witnessed across the Western world over the past few decades appearing in other parts of the world as well, particularly the emerging countries? How can we explain this pattern? What are its consequences and what can be done to address it?

Programme presented by Marc Perelman and prepared by Aurélien Aeberhard and Pauline Heilmann

With Michael Forster, Senior Social Policy Analyst at the OECD, and Jean-Joseph Boillot, Economic Advisor on Emerging Countries at the CEPII think tank


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