Income inequality has increased sharply in higher income countries. Theories attributing this to bifurcation of labor markets are examined. Some theorists attribute this bifurcation primarily to technical change with influence from globalization. Others take an opposite viewpoint. A contrasting...

The collapse of the planned economies in Central and Eastern Europe at the beginning of this decade and the opening up of the national economies led to considerable migration flows into Western Europe. The description of earlier migration flows from Central and Eastern Europe and reasons of...

ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Der Beitrag ist Prof. Dr. Georg Derlitzki, dem Nestor der Arbeitswissenschaften in der deutschen Landwirtschaft und ab 1948 Professor für Arbeitswissenschaften in Halle (Saale), gewidmet. Auf Grund der Ablehnung der von den Nationalsozialisten verfolgten Politik und ihrer...

Begins by considering trends in the incidence of rural poverty in China, comparing China and India. Although the incidence of rural poverty in China declined generally, such poverty is still a matter for concern, especially now that China has joined the WTO. There is concern about the possible...

The prosperity achieved by developing countries in South East and East Asia as well as in many other parts of the developing world, would have been unthinkable fifty years ago. The significant rise in standard and quality of life of the citizens of these countries cannot be explained by their...

The most widely accepted view of sustainable economic development is that it is economic development ensuring that each succeeding generation is no less well off than its predecessor. This mainstream approach, however, has several limitations. It can, for example, result in a development path...

In this paper, we consider an extension of the commonly used poverty gap measure that may be used to address he question of whether the elimination of poverty is a feasible objective, given sufficient political commitment. The resources potentially available to address poverty may be measured by...