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Surprise that the poor are still poor after two decades of rapid growth has become a constant refrain, but development theorists have always maintained that growth is an inegalitarian process. This was so in the classical models of Smith, Ricardo and Marx. Theorists since the Second World War approached the subject differently, via the behaviour of different sectors of the economy, but reached the same conclusion. If anything surprises, it must be the surprise.
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Ohkawa, K. and Rosovsky, H. Japanese Economic Growth, Stanford, 1973, pages 168–9.
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© 1976 Alec Cairncross and Mohinder Puri
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Lewis, W.A. (1976). Development and Distribution. In: Cairncross, A., Puri, M. (eds) Employment, Income Distribution and Development Strategy: Problems of the Developing Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81529-6_3
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