On Analyzing the World Distribution of Income
Consideration of world inequality should cause reexamination of the key concepts underlying the welfare approach to measuring income inequality and its relation to measuring poverty. This reexamination leads to exploration of a new measure that allows poverty and inequality to be considered in the same framework, incorporates different approaches to measuring inequality, and allows varied expressions of the cost of inequality. Applied to the world distribution of income for 1820–1992, the new measure provides different perspectives on the evolution of global inequality.
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| Format: | Journal Article biblioteca |
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World Bank
2010-02-15
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| Subjects: | economic analysis, economic growth, economic research, economic review, empirical level, gini coefficient, growth rates, income, income differences, income distribution, incomes, inequality, inequality measure, inequality measures, measuring income inequality, measuring inequality, measuring poverty, per capita growth, per capita income, poverty reduction, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4513 |
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