00589nam a2200085Ia 4500100002300000245007400023260000900097520037800106583001900484  aSHEEHEY, Edmund J.  aGrowing gap between rich and poor countries : a proposed explanation.  c1996  aExplains the reported pattern of increasing divergence of per capita income levels between high and low income countries, and among how-income countries.  The evidence presented implies that the growing gap in standards of living is due more to differences between population and labour force growth rates than to slower growth of output per worker in low income countries.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR