Inequality , Growth , and Democracy
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چکیده
1 4 5 Inter-American Development Bank. Facing Up to Inequality in Latin America. Washington, D.C.: Distributed by the Johns Hopkins University Press for the Inter-American Development Bank, 1998,204 pp. Dani Rodrik. The New Global Economy and Developing Countries: Making Openness Work. Washington, D.C.: Overseas Development Council, 1999,168 pp. Vito Tanzi and Ke-young Chu, eds. Income Distribution and High Quality Growth. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998,417 pp.
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