Regional Inequality in Spain: 1860-2015
Regional Inequality in Spain: 1860-2015
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西班牙的地区不平等:1860-2015
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-96110-1
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发表时间:
2018
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通讯作者:
Daniel A. Tirado
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作者:
Alfonso Díez;Julio Martinez;Daniel A. Tirado
The world is a very unequal place from an economic point of view. The roughly 200 countries that today occupy the planet’s surface present huge differences in income levels, 1 and there are big differences within the countries themselves, too. Yet it is only relatively recently that this territorial inequality has attracted the attention of academics, politicians and international organizations. The main reason for this, as has repeatedly been shown (Kanbur et al. 2005; Milanovic 2005; World Bank 2009), is the fact that the successful growth experiences of emerging countries like China and India have been accompanied by growing disparities, especially between coastal and inland regions. The case of China is probably the most paradigmatic. Despite the rapid economic progress of the last few decades which has transformed it into a leading actor in the world economy, its income per capita lags behind that of the most developed countries. And with a gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of around 16,000$, China still has a long way to go to1 GDP per capita in Norway, currently one of the top-ranked countries in the world, is over 70,000$. This is more than 100 times greater than that of the poorest country, the Central African Republic, which barely reaches 680$(international dollars, purchasing power parity [PPP]). IMF figures.