Accounting for the Recent Decline in Global Income Inequality1

By G. Firebaugh, Brian Goesling. American Journal of Sociology, 2004

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Rise of China and the global overaccumulation crisis (2008, background): “Provided with its huge population, China’s march from the category of low income countries to the middle income one significantly alters the pattern of international income distribution (Firebaugh and Goesling, 2004).”
Reassessing the Effect of Economic Growth on Well-being in Less-developed Countries, 1980–2003 (2007, background): “…explain why life expectancy increased 8.8% in Latin America and the Caribbean and 15.7% in the Middle East and North Africa during the 1980s and 1990s (Goesling and Firebaugh 2004: 134), even though Latin America only grew 0.35% and the Middle East only grew 1.2% (Firebaugh and Goesling 2004: 286).”
When Does Economic Growth Improve Life Satisfaction? Multilevel Analysis of the Roles of Social Trust and Income Inequality in 46 Countries, 1981–2012 (2017, background): “Some argue that economic growth (often measured as levels of GDP) is beneficial to well-being as it improves food intake, infant survival, and life expectancy (Firebaugh and Beck, 1994; Firebaugh, 1992; Firebaugh and Goesling, 2004).”