IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/pshchp/978-3-030-73347-6_5.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The International Dimension of Poverty

In: The Dynamics of Poverty

Author

Listed:
  • Mats Lundahl

    (Stockholm School of Economics)

Abstract

This chapter tells the story of how Gunnar Myrdal during his decade as executive secretary of the newly established United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) in Geneva between 1947 and 1958 turned to the analysis of poverty in an international perspective, in three major works, An International Economy, Development and Under-Development, usually referred to as his Cairo lectures, and Economic Theory and Under-Developed Regions. In these Myrdal relates the issue of domestic inequalities to that of inequalities on the international level. He investigates how the progress of certain regions tends to generate backwash effects which serve to lower the living standards in other regions in a cumulative fashion and how the same mechanism operates on the international level. Instead of leading to factor price equalization, trade serves to set off cumulative effects which lead to increasing income disparities between nations.

Suggested Citation

  • Mats Lundahl, 2021. "The International Dimension of Poverty," Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought, in: The Dynamics of Poverty, chapter 0, pages 77-99, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-030-73347-6_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73347-6_5
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-030-73347-6_5. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.