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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Prologue: The Promise of the Twentieth Century 1
5. Introduction: A Topic Whose Time Has Come 3
6. PART I: SETTING THE STAGE
7. Chapter 1. The Three Concepts of Inequality Defined 7
8. Chapter 2. Other Differences between the Concepts 12
9. Chapter 3. International and World Inequality Compared 20
10. PART II: INEQUALITY AMONG COUNTRIES
11. Chapter 4. Rising Differences in Per Capita Incomes 31
12. Chapter 5. Regional Convergence, Divergence, or . . . “Vergence” 45
13. Chapter 6. The Shape of International GDP Per Capita Distribution 51
14. Chapter 7. Winners and Losers: Increasing Dominance of the West 61
15. PART III: GLOBAL INEQUALITY
16. Chapter 8. Concept 2 Inequality: Decreasing in the Past Twenty Years 85
17. Chapter 9. High Global Inequality: No Trend? 101
18. Chapter 10. A World without a Middle Class 128
19. PART IV: CONCLUDING COMMENTS
20. Chapter 11. The Three Concepts of Inequality in Historical Perspective 139
21. Chapter 12. Why Does Global Inequality Matter and What to Do about It? 149
22. Appendixes 1–7 163
23. Notes 195
24. References 213
25. Index of Authors 223
26. Index of Subjects 225