Changes in globalization and technology and their impacts on national income inequality

The evidence presented in the preceding chapter suggests that a multitude of factors influence income distribution through their effects on various categories of income at different points in time and at different phases of a country’s economic development. The objective of this chapter is to examine the pressures that technological advances and globalization of trade and finance have exerted on the evolution of national income inequality over the past two decades.

Related Subject(s): International Trade and Finance