Global Inequality: Recent Evidence and Trends

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Global Inequality: Recent Evidence and Trends

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Chotikapanich, Duangkamon
Prasada Rao, D.S.
Griffiths, William E.
Valencia, Vicar

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William Edward Griffiths

Abstract

This paper examines the nature and extent of global and regional income distribution and inequality using the most recent country level data on income distribution drawn from World Bank and UNU-WIDER studies for the period 1993-2000. The methodology used is a recently developed technique to fit flexible income distributions to limited aggregated data. Empirical results show a very high degree of global inequality, but with some evidence of inequality decreasing between the two years.

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Paper provided by World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) in its series Working Papers with number UNU-WIDER Research Paper RP2007/01.

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Date of creation: 2007
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