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One of the most important problems facing humanity today is the immense disparity in the level of income and, consequently, in the standard of living among the people in different parts of the world. What is more disheartening is that the growth rate of income of the poor countries is consistently far below the rate of economically advanced countries. Based on the resulting difference of income, countries are generally divided into two groups: developed and underdeveloped.
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Chatterji, M. (1983). The Problem and the Setting. In: Management and Regional Science for Economic Development. Studies in Applied Regional Science, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7412-8_1
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