About the Author
Erik Thorbecke is the H.E. Babcock Professor of Economics Emeritus and Graduate School and International Professor at Cornell University and one of the creators of the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) metric for measuring poverty.
Notes
1. See Thorbecke and Charumilind (Citation2002) for a fuller and detailed discussions of those channels and pathways through which inequality can dampen growth.