Global Inequality: Recent Evidence and Trends
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.
- Publisher:
- UNU-WIDER
- Series:
- WIDER Research Paper
- Volume:
- 2007/01
- Title:
- Global Inequality: Recent Evidence and Trends
- Authors:
- Duangkamon Chotikapanich, D.S. Prasada Rao, William E. Griffiths, and Vicar Valencia
- Publication date:
- January 2007
- ISSN Web:
- 1810-2611
- ISBN Web:
- 9291909408
- ISBN 13 Web:
- 9789291909407
- Copyright holder:
- © UNU-WIDER
- Copyright year:
- 2007
- Keywords:
- Gini coefficient, beta-2 distribution
- JEL:
- C13, C16, D31
- Project:
- Global Trends in Inequality and Poverty
- Sponsor:
- The governments of Denmark (Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Finland (Ministry for Foreign Affairs), Norway (Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Sweden (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency-Sida) and the United Kingdom (Department for International Development).
- Format:
- online