Inequality and Environmental Sustainability
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* The author is a Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the Development Policy Analysis Division of UN DESA. He would like to thank Gregroy Mikkelson and Danny Dorling for their comments on previous versions the paper. Thanks are also due to the participants of the Expert Group Meeting held in 2014 where this paper was presented. Particular thanks are due to the anonymous referee, whose substantive and editorial comments helped much to improve the paper. Special thanks are due to Nicole Hunt for her help with the tables and graphs. All remaining errors and shortcomings are author’s. The views expressed in this paper are author’s personal and need not be ascribed to the organizations he is associated with. Send your comments to [email protected]. ABSTRACT
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