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- The impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governance @EQUAL
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Alice H. Amsden, Alisa DiCaprio, James Robinson
- UNU-WIDER
, 2009
- Helsinki, Finland
Alice Amsden, Alisa DiCaprio, and James Robinson To understand what role elites play in the process of economic development, we need to establish first who they are. Though most definitions are welfare neutral, in popular discourse elites take on a negative connotation. This conceptual confusion has...
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