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The global consumption and income project : an introduction and preliminary findings
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015
unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark … consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462536
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How polarized is the global income distribution?
Roope, Laurence; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tarp, Finn - 2018
The interest in the level of global inequality has surged in recent years. This paper complements existing estimates of global inequality by providing the first estimates of the level of bipolarization of the global income distribution. During 1975-2010, global bipolarization declined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777701
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Global interpersonal inequality : trends and measurement
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Roope, Laurence; Tarp, Finn - 2014
interpersonal inequality during 1975-2005 are measured using data from UNU-WIDER’s World Income Inequality Database. In order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228740
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The UTIP global inequality datasets : 1963 - 2008
Galbraith, James K.; Halbach, Béatrice; Malinowska, … - 2015
the world, from 1963 to 2008. The new UTIP-UNIDO (University of Texas Inequality Project-United Nations Industrial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472497
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Global income polarization : relative and absolute perspectives
Jordá, Vanesa; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Roope, Laurence; … - 2023
This paper presents the first global and regional estimates of polarization and bipolarization spanning the period 1960-2020. The study relies on group data to implement a flexible parametric model to obtain the global income distribution and polarization estimates. The study introduces a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442614
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The global inequality boomerang
Kanbur, Ravi; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; Sumner, Andrew - 2022
In this paper we argue that the decline in global inequality over the last decades has spurred a 'sunshine' narrative of falling global inequality that has been rather oversold, in the sense, we argue, it is likely to be temporary. We argue the decline in global inequality will reverse due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012887946
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Redistribution, inequality, and growth revisited : comment on "Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence"
Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Rönkkö, Risto - 2020
An influential paper by Berg et al., 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence', uses the SWIID data to examine the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth in both developing and developed countries. It finds that while inequality is harmful for growth, redistribution does...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299793
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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?
Sumner, Andrew - 2013
The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … first is that the thresholds used to classify countries by the World Bank and extensively used by aid agencies, albeit with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752790
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Global inequality : how large is the effect of top incomes?
Jorda, Vanesa; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2016
In this paper, we estimate the recent evolution of global interpersonal inequality and examine the effect of omitted top incomes on the level and direction of global inequality. We propose a methodology to estimate the truncation point of household surveys by combining information on income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525394
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Growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda : a broad perspective
Verpoorten, Marijke - 2014
This study focuses on growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda. We take a broad perspective, in two respects. First, we consider a long time period so as to compare the current situation with the pre-war situation, allowing us to assess whether the recent successes can be attributed to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418141