INCOME INEQUALITY IN China substantially widened, particularly between households in the city and the countryside, after China began its rapid rate of economic development around 1980. The average urban resident now makes 3.2 times as much as the average rural resident, and among city dwellers alone...
Glenn Firebaugh's book is consistent with this scholarly reasoning. It is a one-idea book, but it must be said that the idea is a good one. Firebaugh's goal is to refute the current critics of globalization who claim that international incomes are becoming more unequal: that globalization ...
Both these aspects of the technological divide draw inspiration from the idea of the ‘digital divide’ proposed by Warschauer in scholarly work on information and communications technology (ICT) (Warschauer, 2004). In LICs, both AI tools and skilled professionals are scarce compared to HICs (...
Searches were conducted in spring 2020 in six scholarly databases (Pubmed, SCOPUS, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Web of Science (Social Science Citation Index), CINAHL, and Anthrosource), with delimiters of English language and publication date of 2014-present. Selection criteria ...
(1955), which elucidates the relationship between economic growth and INE, has been widely developed in economic and environmental fields. There are some inextricable nexuses between INE and technological innovation that provoke scholarly debate. Despite the benefits of technological change to economic ...
The scholarly research shows the opposite is true. Free markets and small government are the recipe for growth and prosperity. I’ll now shift back to a part of the column that is unfortunately accurate. It is also a template for much more that needs to be done to tackle the adverse side...
A first challenge in measuring the causal impact of the epidemic on mortality inequality consists in isolating the specific contribution of COVID-19. Even in the absence of a pandemic, structural socioeconomic inequalities in health would have likely resulted in an income gradient in 2020 mortality...
(i.e., economic, environmental, and social), economic impact, which includes increased tourism has received most of the scholarly and anecdotal attention (Li & Jago, 2012). However, this domain has been the most contentious among scholars, and often the most disappointing for host nations (...
Income inequality in the US has now reached levels not seen since the 1920s. Management, as a field of scholarly inquiry, has the potential to contribute in significant ways to our understanding of recent inequality trends. We review and assess recent research, both in the management literature...
Immigration reduces crime: An emerging scholarly consensus. In W. F. McDonald (Ed.), Sociology of crime, law and deviance. Immigration, crime and justice (Vol. 13, pp. 3–16). Emerald Group. Lee, M. T., & Martinez, R., Jr. (2002). Social disorganization revisited: Mapping the ...