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Why don't economies converge to a single economic growth path.
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More
recent
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Data are also available here http://www.freetheworld.com/datasets_efw.html
Held, D. and McGrew, A., Goldblatt, D. and Perraton, J. (1999), Global Transformations : Politics,Economics and Culture, Polity Press, Cambridge. Summary available at http://www.polity.co.uk/global/global-transformations.asp
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Shackman, Gene, Xun Wang and Ya-Lin Liu. 2002. Brief review of world demographic trends. Available at http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/demsum.html
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This is from the UN and World Bank. see the section
on poverty
United Nations Development Report. 2003. Human Development
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Welzel, Christian, Ronald Inglehart and Hans-Dieter Klingemann.
Human Development as a Universal Theory of Social Change:
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Societies. Paper presented at ECPR Joint Sessions,
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I can't find it on the web but a related paper is available here
The theory of human development: A cross-cultural analysis,
Welzel, Inglehard and Klingemann,
European Journal of Political Research, Volume 42 Issue 3 Page 341
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