Global Inequality — Quiz

According to Milanović's decomposition, what was the dominant component of global inequality by the late twentieth century?

What does the 'trough' in the elephant curve (around the 75th–90th global percentile) primarily represent?

Which of the following best describes Pomeranz's argument about the origins of the Great Divergence?

What instrument did Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson use to identify the causal effect of institutions on long-run development?

What is the core claim of Engerman and Sokoloff's factor-endowments argument about colonial inequality?

Which of the following best describes Bourguignon's finding about the sources of the modest decline in global inequality since the late 1980s?

What is Sanjay Reddy and Rahul Lahoti's main methodological criticism of the World Bank's international poverty line?

Explain what Robert Wade's concept of 'governing the market' means and how it challenges the Washington Consensus explanation of East Asian development.

What does the world-systems concept of 'unequal exchange' mean, and how does it relate to Prebisch's declining terms-of-trade argument?

Why does the topic argue that global inequality is 'not simply a scaled-up version of national inequality'? Identify at least two mechanisms that operate at the global level but not within countries.

Drawing on at least four of the theoretical frameworks or empirical findings covered in this topic, critically evaluate the claim that 'globalization has reduced global inequality.' In your answer, distinguish between different dimensions of inequality (between-country, within-country, top-income shares) and consider what the choice of measurement framework implies for the conclusion.

According to the World Bank data cited in the topic, what share of the world's population lived below the extreme poverty line in 1990, and approximately what share by 2019, when measured on a consistent series?