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The first years of the 1990s have seen a revival in the interest in the relation between economic growth, inequality and poverty, and in the ways in which the benefits of development are shared among a population. One reason for this renewed interest is that it has been recognized in several empirical studies that despite the growth rates observed for long periods, poverty in the developing world and even in some developed countries has not always decreased as expected.1
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Székely, M. (1998). Introduction. In: The Economics of Poverty, Inequality and Wealth Accumulation in Mexico. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372610_1
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