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Global Income Distribution and Inequality: 1993 and 2000

Chotikapanich, Duangkamon; Griffiths, William E; Rao, … - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2009

distributions. Gini and Theil inequality measures for countries, regions and the world are expressed in terms of the parameters of …

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Estimating income inequality in China using grouped data and the generalized beta distribution

Chotikapanich, Duangkamon; Prasada Rao, D. S.; Tang, Kam Ki - 2006

There are two main types of data sources of income distributions in China: household survey data and grouped data. Household survey data are typically available for isolated years and individual provinces. In comparison, aggregate or grouped data are typically available more frequently and...

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Global inequality: Recent evidence and trends

Chotikapanich, Duangkamon; Prasada Rao, D. S.; … - 2007

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...

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Averaging Lorenz Curves

Chotikapanich, Duangkamon; Griffiths, William E. - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2003

Australian income units. Prior information is formulated in terms of the Gini coefficient and the income shares of the poorest 10 …

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Estimating and Combining National Income Distributions using Limited Data

Chotikapanich, Duangkamon; Griffiths, William E.; Rao, … - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2005

A major problem encountered in studies of income inequality at regional and global levels is the estimation of income distributions from data that are in a summary form. In this paper we estimate national and regional income distributions within a general framework that relaxes the assumption of...

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