Leandro Prados de la Escosura, "Human Development and the Path to Freedom: 1870 to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Global Inequality - What's the Big Takeaway?
Inequality increased up to the 20th century, and certainly declined from the late 1920s to the present. This has to do with these differential elements that those who reject the idea that a well well being is just a proxy for GDP tend to forget. And this can be also observed if you just don't think into account within country inequality because these figures are highly elusive. The spread of achievements in terms of health or in terms of education have been unevenly distributed as in terms of of per capita income.
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