Using national income and expenditure distribution data from 119 countries, the authors decompose total income inequality between the individuals in the world, by continent and by "region" (countries grouped by income level). They use a Gini decomposition that allows for an exact breakdown (without a residual term) of the overall Gini by recipients. Looking first at income inequality in income between countries is more important than inequality within...
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2001/03/31
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS2562
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2010/07/01
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Decomposing world income distribution : does the world have a middle class ?
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per capita income level
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