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Moab
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Mo·ab  (mb)
An ancient kingdom east of the Dead Sea in present-day southwest Jordan. According to the Bible, its inhabitants were descendants of Lot. Archaeological exploration has traced settlement in the area to at least the 13th century b.c.

Moab [ˈməʊæb]
n
(Placename) Old Testament an ancient kingdom east of the Dead Sea, in what is now the SW part of Jordan: flourished mainly from the 9th to the 6th centuries bc
Moabite  [ˈməʊəˌbaɪt] adj & n


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A similar outcome is obtained by Galor and Moav (2004), who construct a model in which inequality permits the advancement of the process of industrialization in early stages of development, and only in later stages of development does equality dominate.
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who co-authored this new theory with Omer Moav of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
 
 
 
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