Global Disparities: Of People and Pets
9 Pages Posted: 18 Dec 2006
Date Written: March 2005
Abstract
This paper defines a new approach to measuring global disparities in development. Instead of comparing some characteristic, X, of development between people in rich and poor countries, we propose to compare X for people in poor countries against pets (of the mammalian kind) in rich countries. Among other advantages, this approach yields a measure of global disparities that is lower than the conventional estimates.
Keywords: Global economy, Disparities, Pets
JEL Classification: O1, F0
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Alam, Mohammad Shahid, Global Disparities: Of People and Pets (March 2005). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=952108 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.952108
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