Income Distribution and Development: Some Stylized Facts
回顾了收入分配与发展关系的争论，重点检验库兹涅茨提出的不平等随发展先升后降的倒U型假说，并讨论其对发展中国家福利的影响。
In recent years, the relationship between income distribution and the process of development has come under increasing scrutiny. Much of the debate has focused on the hypothesis, originally advanced by Simon Kuznets, that the secular behavior of inequality follows an inverted U-shaped pattern with inequality first increasing and then decreasing with development. This hypothesis has become so much a part of the conventional wisdom on this subject that it has generated considerable skepticism about the welfare implications of the development process. Indeed, on some interpretations, developing countries face the grim prospect not just of increasing relative inequality, but also of declining absolute incomes for the lower income groups.