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Unbalanced regional growth and regional income inequality in the latter stages of development

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The authors empirically examined the pattern of regional income inequality displayed in advanced stages of economic development, building from the convergent phase of the inverted-U hypothesis, originally developed by Kuznets for personal income inequality, but adapted by Williamson for regional inequality.
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This article is published in Regional Science and Urban Economics.The article was published on 1988-11-01. It has received 141 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Income inequality metrics & Income distribution.

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US Regional Income Convergence: A Spatial Econometric Perspective

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the question of US regional economic income convergence from a spatial econometric perspective and find strong evidence of misspecification due to ignored spatial error dependence, potentially complicating the transitional dynamics of the convergence process.
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Income Distribution and Development

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the post-war literature on income distribution and development is presented, arguing that the literature has cycled from one consensus to another, responding to emerging policy issues and new analysis.
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Does Decentralization Matter for Regional Disparities? A Cross-Country Analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between decentralization and the evolution of regional inequalities in a panel of 26 countries (19 developed and 7 developing) for the period between 1990 and 2006.
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Does decentralization matter for regional disparities? A cross-country analysis

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between decentralization and the evolution of regional inequalities in a panel of 26 countries, 19 developed and 7 developing, for the period between 1990 and 2006.
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Spatial Inequality and Development - Is there an Inverted-U Relationship?

TL;DR: In this paper, an inverted-U-shaped relationship between spatial inequality and economic development has been studied in 55 countries at different stages of economic development, covering the period 1980-2009.
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Economic Growth and Income Inequality

TL;DR: The process of industrialization engenders increasing income inequality as the labor force shifts from low-income agriculture to the high income sectors as mentioned in this paper, and on more advanced levels of development inequality starts decreasing and industrialized countries are again characterized by low inequality due to the smaller weight of agriculture in production and income generation.
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The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto.

TL;DR: A traditional society is one whose structure is developed within limited production functions, based on pre-Newtonian science and technology, and on pre Newtonian attitudes towards the physical world as mentioned in this paper.
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Economic theory and under-developed regions

Gunnar Myrdal
- 01 Aug 1960 - 
TL;DR: In this article, economic theory and under-developed regions are discussed in the context of underdeveloped regions and economic theory in underdeveloped countries, where economic theory is applied to developing regions.