[Special Issue News] The Science of Inequality: While emerging economies boom, equality goes bust

Longitudinal surveys, better cross-sectional data, and renewed attention from scholars have exposed extraordinarily high levels of inequality in developing countries. In many parts of the world, the gulf between rich and poor is widening, overturning some predictions about the relationship between development and inequality. A tour of emerging economies shows that people in different countries react to these dispiriting trends in highly varied—and often unexpected—ways.
Author: Mara Hvistendahl

Source: Science: This Week - May 23, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Mara Hvistendahl Tags: The Science of Inequality Source Type: research