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RESERVE BANK OF AUSTRALIA

Conference – 2002

Globalisation, Living Standards and Inequality: Recent Progress and Continuing Challenges

27–28 May 2002

2002 Cover

The 2002 conference, jointly hosted by the Reserve Bank and the Australian Treasury, brought together leading researchers and policy advisors from the G-20 group of countries. Papers for the conference were written by Nancy Birdsall, Centre for Global Development, Washington DC; David Dollar, The World Bank; Steve Dowrick, The Australian National University; Peter Harper, Australian Bureau of Statistics; Ken Henry, Australian Treasury; Adarsh Kishore, Ministry of Finance, India; Timothy Smeeding, Luxembourg Income Study; Robert Wade, London School of Economics and Political Science; and Shang-Jin Wei, International Monetary Fund.

A volume, containing the conference papers and discussions, was published on 16 September 2002.

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Contents


Growth, Poverty and Inequality

National Experiences

Improving Knowledge of Changes in Poverty and Inequality

Spreading the Benefits of Globalisation