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EJCE Year: 2010, December. Volume: 7 - Issue: 2

Poverty, Population, Inequality, and Development: the Historical Perspective

by Alberto Chilosi

Start page: 469 - End page: 501

Keywords: poverty; population; development; distribution; globalization

Jel code: N0; O10; P0

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Abstract:

Seen in historical perspective the main economic predicaments of the present world (such as poverty, inequality, backwardness) appear in a somewhat different light than in many current discussions, especially by sociologists, radical economists and political scientists. In the present paper the achievements of the modern age, and in particular of the post- World War II period, are considered in the perspective of economic and demographic history, and in their connection with the systems of production and of international relations. Some considerations concerning future possible developments conclude the paper.

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