Pt. 1. The Classic Thesis and the Contradictory Evidence: Will the Whole World Eventually Grow Rich? 1. The Dual Gaps: An Updated Overview of Theory and Research / Mitchell A. Seligson. 2. The Five Stages of Growth / W. W. Rostow. 3. Income Growth, Income Gaps, and the Ranking of Nations / Angus Maddison. 4. The Persistence of the Gap Between Rich and Poor Countries: Taking Stock of World Economic Growth, 1960-1993 / John T. Passe-Smith -- Pt. 2. Domestic Income Inequality: The Rich Get Richer. 5. Economic Growth and Income Inequality / Simon Kuznets. 6. Cross-National Evidence of the Domestic Gap / Montek S. Ahluwalia. 7. A New Data Set Measuring Income Inequality / Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire. 8. Inequality and Insurgency / Edward N. Muller and Mitchell A. Seligson -- Pt. 3. The Classic Thesis Revisited: Limits to Convergence. 9. Catching Up, Forging Ahead, and Falling Behind / Moses Abramovitz. 10. Productivity Growth, Convergence, and Welfare: What the Long-Run Data Show / William J. Baumol. 11. Productivity Growth, Convergence, and Welfare: Comment / J. Bradford De Long. 12. Could It Be That the Whole World Is Already Rich? A Comparison of RGDP/pc and GNP/pc Measures / John T. Passe-Smith. 13. Forget Convergence: Divergence Past, Present, and Future / Lant Pritchett -- Pt. 4. Culture, Modernization, and Development. 14. The Achievement Motive in Economic Growth / David C. McClelland. 15. Reevaluating the Effect of N-Ach on Economic Growth / Jeffrey Lewis. 16. The Effect of Cultural Values on Economic Development: Theory, Hypotheses, and Some Empirical Tests / Jim Granato, Ronald Inglehart and David Leblang. 17. Becoming Modern / Alex Inkeles and David H. Smith. 18. The Confucian Ethic and Economic Growth / Herman Kahn. 19. The Culture of Poverty / Oscar Lewis. 20. Underdevelopment Is a State of Mind / Lawrence E. Harrison. 21. On the Sociology of National Development: Theories and Issues / Alejandro Portes -- Pt. 5. Dependency and World-System Theory. 22. The Structure of Dependence / Theotonio dos Santos. 23. Modernization and Dependency: Alternative Perspectives in the Study of Latin American Underdevelopment / J. Samuel Valenzuela and Arturo Valenzuela. 24. The Present State of the Debate on World Inequality / Immanuel Wallerstein. 25. Transnational Penetration and Economic Growth / Volker Bornschier and Christopher Chase-Dunn. 26. Growth Effects of Foreign and Domestic Investment / Glenn Firebaugh. 27. American Penetration and Canadian Development: A Study of Mature Dependency / Heather-Jo Hammer and John W. Gartrell -- Pt. 6. The State, Growth, and Inequality. 28. Governments and Agricultural Markets in Africa / Robert H. Bates. 29. Why People Stay Poor Elsewhere / Erich Weede. 30. Urban Bias and Inequality / Michael Lipton. 31. Political Regimes and Economic Growth / Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi. 32. Growth in East Asia: What We Can and What We Cannot Infer / Michael Sarel. 33. Inequality as a Constraint on Growth in Latin America / Nancy Birdsall and Richard Sabot. 34. Growth and the Environment: Allies or Foes? / Vinod Thomas and Tamara Belt -- Pt. 7. Conclusion. 35. Inequality in a Global Perspective: Directions for Further Research / Mitchell A. Seligson -- App. Basic Indicators of the Gaps Between Rich and Poor in 133 Countries