New Markets, New Opportunities?: Economic and Social Mobility in a Changing World

by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Book Overview

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Many of the countries that have recently converted to a market-based economic system have also experienced an alarming increase in income inequality -- a widening gap between the haves and have nots. But to what extent is the increase in inequality also increasing the opportunities for economic advancement -- particularly for those at the bottom of the economic ladder? Does the creation of greater opportunities make a region's move to the market...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081570917X
• ISBN13: 9780815709176
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"