Income Inequality in Pakistan. An Analysis of Existing Evidence

To study the consequences of an economic change on income distribution we rank distributions of income at different points in time and quantify the degree of income inequalities. Changes in income distribution can be ascertained either through drawing the Lorenz curves or through estimating different inequality indices, such as Gini Coefficient, coefficient of variation, standard deviation of logs of incomes, Theil's Index and Atkinson's Index

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Year of publication:	1984
Authors:	MAHMOOD, ZAFAR
Published in:	The Pakistan Development Review. - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics. - Vol. 23.1984, 2-3, p. 365-379
Publisher:	Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

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Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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