00618nam a2200097Ia 450000500170000010000230001724500740004026000090011452003780012358300190050120260716043338.0  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