Does Trade and Technology Transmission Facilitate Inequality Convergence? : An Inquiry into the Role of Technology in Reducing the Poverty of Nations /

Based on stylized evidence showing variation of the Gini coefficient of income inequality across skill cohorts and on the rapid rise in trade in technology-intensive goods, the ripple effects of technology transmission and income inequality are explored in a global Computable General Equilibrium (CG...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Das, Gouranga Gopal
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/016
Online Access:Full text available on IMF