Global Poverty and Inequality: Continuity and Change in Late Development

TY - JOUR

T1 - Global Poverty and Inequality

T2 - Continuity and Change in Late Development

AU - Sumner, Andrew Paul

PY - 2018/9/28

Y1 - 2018/9/28

N2 - This contribution assesses the ‘converging divergence’ thesis that global inequality is falling and national inequality is rising. The article argues that falling global inequality is primarily due to China’s development and that national inequality has risen in some developing countries and fallen in others. In light of the dominance of China’s development in the global picture, questions arise as to what has changed and what has not changed outside of China. A set of continuities and changes are presented. It is then argued that these continuities and changes provide for the contemporary relevance an older conceptual lens — that of ‘late development’.

AB - This contribution assesses the ‘converging divergence’ thesis that global inequality is falling and national inequality is rising. The article argues that falling global inequality is primarily due to China’s development and that national inequality has risen in some developing countries and fallen in others. In light of the dominance of China’s development in the global picture, questions arise as to what has changed and what has not changed outside of China. A set of continuities and changes are presented. It is then argued that these continuities and changes provide for the contemporary relevance an older conceptual lens — that of ‘late development’.

KW - Poverty; Inequality; Late Development

M3 - Article

SN - 0012-155X

JO - DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE

JF - DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE

ER -