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How Much Does Reducing Inequality Matter for Global Poverty?

Lakner, Christoph - 2019

The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …

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Distribution of Consumption Expenditure in East Asia

Jirasavetakul, La-Bhus Fah - 2017

Using a new database of household surveys, this paper examines inequality among all individuals living in developing East Asia regardless of their country of residence. The East Asian Gini index increased from 39.0 in 1988 to 43.3 in 2012. Inequality increased during the initial decade,...

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Global Inequality : The Implications of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century

Lakner, Christoph - 2017

In the 2000s, global inequality fell for the first time since the Industrial Revolution, driven by a decline in the dispersion of average incomes across countries. Between 1988 and 2008, a period of rapidly increasing global integration, income growth was largest for the global top 1 percent and...

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The Distribution of Consumption Expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa : The Inequality Among All Africans

Jirasavetakul, La-Bhus Fah - 2017

This paper uses a set of national household surveys to study the regional Sub-Saharan Africa distribution of consumption expenditure among individuals during 1993 to 2008. The analysis puts the disparities in living standards that exist among persons in Africa into context with the disparities...

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Global Income Distribution : From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Great Recession

Lakner, Christoph - 2017

The paper presents a newly compiled and improved database of national household surveys between 1988 and 2008. In 2008, the global Gini index is around 70.5 percent having declined by approximately 2 Gini points over this twenty year period. When it is adjusted for the likely under-reporting of...

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Capital and Labor : The Factor Income Composition of Top Incomes in the United States, 1962-2006

Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2018

This paper finds that capital and labor incomes in the United States have become more closely associated since the 1980s. This contributed to the well-known increase in the top 1 percent's share of total income, exacerbating rising inequality in capital incomes and earnings. The paper shows that...

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Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Growth : A Cross-Country Analysis

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2017

Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be associated with faster economic growth, other kinds, arising from unequal opportunities for investment, might be detrimental to economic progress. This study uses two new metadata...

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Design of a Multi-Stage Stratified Sample for Poverty and Welfare Monitoring with Multiple Objectives : A Bangladesh Case Study

Ahmed, Faizuddin - 2017

Survey 2016/17. This survey instrument will be used by the Government of Bangladesh to estimate reliable poverty and welfare …

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Revisiting the Poverty Trend in Rwanda : 2010/11 to 2013/14

Fatima, Freeha - 2018

registered a decline in poverty from 46 percent in 2010/11 to 39 percent in 2013/14. This declining poverty trend was broadly … national poverty numbers and corroborates the poverty rates published by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda …. Underlying the paper?s conclusions is a detailed theoretical and analytical framework for making poverty comparisons over time …

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Twinning the Goals : How Can Promoting Shared Prosperity Help to Reduce Global Poverty?

Lakner, Christoph - 2018

In 2013, the World Bank adopted two goals: First, reduce global extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030. Second, promote … simulates the global poverty headcount under three growth scenarios for the bottom 40 percent up to 2030. The analysis deploys a … percentage points faster than the mean, the World Bank's poverty goal is achieved with the global poverty falling to below 3 …

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