Glenn Firebaugh Argues That the Human Development Report Estimates of Changes

question 27

True/False

Glenn Firebaugh argues that the Human Development Report estimates of changes in world inequality are misleading because they do not use a proper measure of world income inequality. For Firebaugh, a proper measure is a Purchasing Power Parity PPP) measure.

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