Francis Teal has worked on labour market questions for both rich and poor countries, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. It is this background that informs the approach adopted in this book to understanding the sources of inequality; a global and pressing concern.He was a Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) at the University of Oxford from 1996 until his retirement in 2012. He is now a managing editor of Oxford Economic Papers and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of African Economies.Before joining the Centre in 1991 Francis Teal held positions in Tanzania at the Tanzania Investment Bank, in the UK at the National Institute of Economics and Social Research and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and in Australia at the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and the Australian National University.

• 1: From Billions to Hundreds of Dollars of Income 2: The Poor and the Rich in the UK in the 21st Century 3: Five Countries - the US, UK, Brazil, China, and India 4: The Rise (and Rise) of the World Economy 5: The Growing Equality Across Countries and Inequality in Some Countries 6: Inequality and Poverty Across the World 7: The Fall and Rise of the 1 Per Cent 8: The Incomes of the Plutocrats in a Comparative Perspective 9: Sources of Increasing Inequality: Earnings of the Relatively Unskilled 10: Sources of Income for the Plutocrats 11: From the Poor to the Plutocrats