Subject(s): Income distribution -- Economic development -- Globalization, ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION,POVERTY, ECONOMIC TRENDS, -- ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIES IN TRANSITION. -- Global income inequality, Scorecard on development- 25 years of diminished progress, Converging or diverging world, World economic growth and income distribution 1980-2000 -- Globalizing Inequality- Centrifugal and centripetal forces at work, Unbalanced distribution of the benefits and costs of global economic growth, Inequality trends in some developed OECD countries -- Unequal Fortunes, unstable households-Raising inequality contributed to economic troubles for households , Poverty and inequity in eastern Europe and the CIS transition economies, Equity in Latin America since the 1990s, Income distribution in the middle east and north Africa 1960-2000, Openness, trade liberalization, inequality and poverty in Africa -- Inequality in India, Growth with equality in East Asia, Understanding the extent and evaluation of inequalities in China