Spatial disparities are a measure of the unequal distribution of income, wealth, power and resources between peoples in different locations. This book focuses on issues directly related to the Millennium Development Goals including Conflict, poverty, and the causes and consequences of inequality. It applies the latest research techniques including regression-based decomposition poverty decomposition and computable general equilibrium models.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anthony J. Venables
Anthony J. Venables is Chief Economist in the UK Department for International Development and Professor of International economics at the London School of Economics (UK). He also directs the globalization programme at the LSE Centre for Economic Performance and is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (UK). He works in the areas of international trade, economic integration and economic geography.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Guanghua Wan
Guanghua Wan is a senior research fellow and project director at UNU-WIDER in Helsinki (Finland). He has published extensively on China's economy, particularly on rural development. Previously, he taught at the University of New England and the University of Sydney (Australia).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ravi Kanbur
Ravi Kanbur is the T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs and professor of economics at Cornell University (USA). He has taught previously at Oxford, Cambridge, Essex and Warwick universities (UK) and at Princeton University (USA), and he has served on the staff of the World Bank, including as Chief Economist for Africa.
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